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Serene Assir

A nun casts her ballot for the Catalan regional election at a polling station in Barcelona on December 21, 2017. (AFP Photo/Javier Soriano)
December 21, 2017, 10:51 pm
Catalans vote in bid to solve independence crisis
High turnout seen in new referendum called by Spanish government after dissolving Catalonia’s separatist coalition
By Marianne Barriaux and Serene Assir
A picture taken on October 26, 2016 shows makeshift shelters and tents of the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais, northern France, next to shipping containers housing migrants during the demolition of the camp. (AFP / Philippe Huguen)
October 26, 2016, 1:16 pm
Dazed migrants recount ordeal after ‘Jungle’ blaze
Witnesses say fires that ravaged tents and shacks of Calais refugee camp were set deliberately
By Serene Assir
Migrants arrive by bus from the "Jungle" on the outskirts of the northern French port city of Calais on October 24, 2016, to a shelter in Lyon, southeastern France. (AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE DESMAZES)
October 24, 2016, 11:59 pm
Relief, shattered dreams for migrants leaving Calais ‘Jungle’
Many of those being evacuated are delighted to escape the ramshackle French camp; some remain desperate to reach British shores
By Serene Assir and Zoe Leroy
Migrants line up for transportation by bus to reception centers across France, from the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais, northern France, on October 24, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS LO PRESTI)
October 24, 2016, 11:51 pm
Migrants stream out of Calais ‘Jungle’ before demolition
France evacuates squalid shantytown, where thousands displaced by war or escaping poverty waited to build new lives in Britain
By Serene Assir and Claire Gallen
A Syrian family rest in a room where they are residing in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp on the southern outskirts of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, April 5, 2016. (AFP/ANWAR AMRO)
April 17, 2016, 12:04 pm
Undocumented Syrians in Lebanon pushed into the shadows
Without permits to work or stay, refugees from civil war live in fear of detention by local authorities
By Serene Assir
Refugees from Syria wait to register at the German army's air base in Erding, southern Germany, on January 31, 2016. (AFP/dpa/Andreas GEBERT)
March 12, 2016, 7:43 am
Activists who lit Syria revolt washed away in migrant wave
Despite finding safe haven in Europe, those who sparked the unrest cannot give up on their country altogether
By Serene Assir
Illustrative. A French soldier stands guard in front of the Great Mosque in Strasbourg, eastern France, during Friday prayers on November 20, 2015. Muslims gathered here to pay tribute to the victims of the November 13 attacks. (AFP/Partrick Hertzog)
November 23, 2015, 8:20 am
French Muslims fear deeper divide after Paris attacks
Amid fears of greater discrimination, jihadist recruiters hope to benefit from anxiety and resentment in Europe’s largest Muslim community
By Serene Assir
Syrian migrants take a picture after their safe arrival on an overcrowded dinghy to the coast of the southeastern Greek island of Kos from Turkey, on August 15, 2015. (AFP/LOUISA GOULIAMAKI)
August 19, 2015, 8:04 am
Facebook, WhatsApp and Viber light way to Europe for Syrian refugees
Migrants fleeing the embattled country use social media and smartphones to plan and document their journeys, find hotel rooms and ease through bureaucracy
By Serene Assir
Syrian residents running in the street after a government warplane dropped barrel bombs on the al-Sakhour neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday, April 5, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center, AMC/File)
November 2, 2014, 10:04 am
Syria said to step up barrel bombings as world shifts focus
US, others more concerned with jihadists than crimes by Assad regime, rights groups and citizens say
By Serene Assir
An image grab taken from an AFPTV video on September 16, 2014 shows a jihadist from the Islamic State (IS) group standing on the rubble of houses after a Syrian warplane was reportedly shot down by IS militants over the Syrian town of Raqa. (photo credit: AFP/AFPTV / STR)
September 21, 2014, 6:11 am
Black prevails in Syria jihadist stronghold
Activists offer rare glimpse of life in IS-controlled cities
By Serene Assir
Illustrative photo of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, August 17, 2014 (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
August 18, 2014, 2:41 pm
Kurds retake key Iraq dam as US, UK step up action
Airstrikes target Islamic State military equipment and positions to assist Kurdish fighters
By Serene Assir
Yazidi Iraqi women queue in order to get food at the Bajid Kandala camp near the Tigris River, in Kurdistan's western Dohuk province, where they took refuge after fleeing advances by Islamic State jihadists in Iraq on August 13, 2014. Photo credit:AFP/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)
August 16, 2014, 10:29 am
Iraq Yazidis fear for thousands kidnapped by jihadists
Some 3,000 women and girls are believed to have been abducted by Islamic State gunmen
By Serene Assir
US President Barack Obama speaks on the situation in Iraq at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, on August 14, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Nicholas KAMM)
August 14, 2014, 11:42 pm
Obama says US broke Islamic State siege in Iraq
Thousands of trapped Yazidi people saved from starvation by humanitarian efforts; military strikes to continue, president says
By Serene Assir
An image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on the jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin allegedly shows militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) driving on a street at unknown location in the Salaheddin province. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / HO / WELAYAT SALAHUDDIN)
July 23, 2014, 5:57 am
Jihadists organize tours in their Syria, Iraq ‘caliphate’
Islamic State fighters operate hop-on, hop-off bus trips spanning Syria and Iraq territory under its control
By Serene Assir
Fighters from Islamic State seen marching in their stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, June 2014. (AP/Militant Website, File)
June 25, 2014, 4:50 pm
Al-Qaeda merges with ISIL at Syria-Iraq town
After months of clashes, move allows Islamist group to control both sides of border
By Serene Assir
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