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Sarah El Deeb

Prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi in a meeting on women's rights in Tehran, Iran, on July 3, 2008. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
May 2, 2026, 2:07 am
Jailed Iranian Nobel winner Mohammadi hospitalized in ‘catastrophic’ condition
Rights lawyer’s foundation says her health decline comes ‘after 140 days of systematic medical neglect’; family ‘fighting for her life’ after severe cardiac crisis
By Sarah El Deeb
Protesters display a banner calling for a halt to executions in Iran during a rally in Berlin, Germany, on January 10, 2026, in support of the Iran protests. (John MacDougall / AFP)
March 21, 2026, 4:56 pm
Wave of executions feared in Iran as authorities hang 3 young men nabbed in protests
Rights groups say victims include star wrestler, 19, who said in court he was tortured into confessing to killing a cop during regime’s brutal crackdown in January
By Lee Keath, Julia Frankel and Sarah El Deeb
A poster of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the successor to his late father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader is placed on an anti-riot police car as policemen stand on top of the car, during a rally to support him in Tehran, Iran, March 9, 2026 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
March 20, 2026, 3:29 pm
Despite IDF strikes, Iran’s feared Basij security forces still patrol Tehran’s streets
Regime-loyal volunteers for highly decentralized force man dozens of checkpoints; over 100 Iranians arrested for alleged ties to enemy states, some for holding Starlink internet dishes
By Sarah El Deeb
This image from a video verified by AP shows Iranian security forces shooting into the courtyard outside the Imam Khomeini Hospital, in Ilam, Iran, January 4, 2026. (UGC via AP, File)
February 27, 2026, 3:56 pm
Iranian agents blocked care for wounded anti-regime protesters at hospitals, doctors say
Some protesters treated outside hospitals to avoid authorities following deadly crackdown; wounded at health facilities, as well as dozens of doctors, said arrested
By Sarah El Deeb
In this photo obtained by The Associated Press, Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, January 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)
February 7, 2026, 7:44 pm
After filming Iran’s brutal crackdown on protests, one activist now fears for her life
37-year-old beautician tells of being on the streets on the most violent nights of the regime’s crackdown, and her fears that ‘all those people who died will have died in vain’
By Sarah El Deeb
This frame grab from videos taken between January 9 and January 11, 2026, and circulating on social media purportedly shows images from a morgue with dozens of bodies and mourners after crackdown on the outskirts of Iran's capital, in Kahrizak, Tehran Province. (UGC via AP)
January 30, 2026, 1:50 pm
‘Standing over ER workers’ heads with a gun’: Iranians describe brutal protest crackdown
Witnesses recall determination to oust Islamic Republic at height of demonstrations, which were met with state brutality that pursued protesters into hospitals
By Kareem Chehayeb and Sarah El Deeb
Hali Norei shows a picture of her 23-year-old niece Robina Aminian as she gives an interview alongside her partner Nezar Minoei, in Oslo, Norway, January 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Bjornar Verpeide)
January 17, 2026, 11:48 am
Family of Iranian protester searched for body in pile of corpses, buried her on a roadside
Friends of Robina Aminian, 23, told family she was shot in back of the head at close range during Tehran rally; mother ‘looked through so many beautiful faces’ before finding her
By Sarah El Deeb and Julia Frankel
Abdullah Zahra demonstrates how he was tortured in a cell at Branch 215, a detention facility run by military intelligence during Bashar al-Assad's regime, in Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
January 7, 2025, 12:29 pm
‘My screams would go to heaven’: Syrians speak out about torture under Assad
Long silenced by fear, men and women finally share what happened in the 100 detention facilities where torture, brutality, sexual violence and mass executions were rampant
By Sarah El Deeb and Malak Harb
BAC Consulting CEO Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono (via LinkedIn)
September 20, 2024, 10:14 pm
CEO of company linked to Hezbollah pagers being guarded by Hungarian secret services
Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, head of BAC Consulting, has not been seen since Tuesday’s widespread explosions in Lebanon
By Justin Spike, Paolo Santalucia and Sarah El Deeb
A Turkish man, walks on the debris of the heritage houses that destroyed during the devastated earthquake, in the old city of Antakya, southern Turkey, Monday, February 13, 2023. (AP/Hussein Malla)
February 22, 2023, 8:32 pm
Ruins of Turkish city of Antakya tell story of a rich past
Jewish community’s leaders died in 7.8-quake this month; city ‘can be rebuilt, but it will not be like the old one,’ resident says
By Sarah El Deeb
A family stays in a makeshift tent surrounded of buildings that were heavily affected during the earthquake in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, February 14, 2023. (Bernat Armangue/AP)
February 14, 2023, 9:11 pm
With toll of over 35,000, earthquake worst in Turkey’s modern history – Erdogan
105,505 injured and 211,000 homes either destroyed or need to be demolished, president tells cabinet; nearly 3,700 killed in neighboring Syria
By Sarah El Deeb, ZEYNEP BILGINSOY, Bernat Armangue and andrew wilks
An explosion is seen in an apartment building after Russian's army tank fires in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
December 23, 2022, 11:03 pm
‘Everything is black, is destroyed’: Russia erases Mariupol’s Ukrainian identity
Death toll in occupied city may never be fully known; large swaths of it are devoid of life, with fire-blackened walls and dust from Russian construction
By Lori Hinnant, VASILISA STEPANENKO, Sarah El Deeb and ELIZAVETA TILNA
Boys from an orphanage in the Donetsk region sit in beds at a camp in Zolotaya Kosa, the settlement on the Sea of Azov, Rostov region, southwestern Russia, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo)
October 13, 2022, 5:13 pm
How Moscow grabs Ukrainian children and makes them Russians
Associated Press investigation tracks youngsters caught up in war who were separated from their families to be handed over to new Russian parents
By Sarah El Deeb, ANASTASIIA SHVETS and ELIZAVETA TILNA
Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, listens to Lebedinsky GOK Managing Director Oleg Mikhailov, left, as businessman and founder of USM Holdings, Alisher Usmanov, right, and Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov stand behind him while visiting the Lebedinsky GOK JSC, in Gubkin, Belgorod Region, Russia, Friday, July 14, 2017. Usmanov is not on the sanctions list implemented in response to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The metals tycoon was an early investor in Facebook. His fortune is estimated at more than $14 billion. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
February 26, 2022, 3:32 pm
Ignoring the richest of Russia’s rich: Biden’s sanctions exclude Putin’s oligarchs
An estimated $800 billion is held overseas by wealthy Russians, some of it invested in everything from Facebook (Alisher Usmanov) to English soccer teams (Roman Abramovich)
By Michael Biesecker, Joshua Goodman, Sarah El Deeb and Richard Lardner
Soldiers with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces check a house in Hassakeh, Syria, January 25, 2022. (Hogir Al Abdo/AP)
January 26, 2022, 7:09 pm
After week-long battle, US-backed Kurdish group recaptures Syria prison from IS
Syrian Democratic Forces say Islamic State fighters used children as human shields in bold attack at Gweiran complex; almost 200 said killed
By Sarah El Deeb
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