SYRIA AGREES TO UN PROBE OF PURPORTED ATTACKS
By JAMAL HALABY In this photo taken on a government organized media tour, Syrian army soldiers are seen deployed in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013.…
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SYRIA WARNS US NOT TO INTERVENE MILITARILY
By BASSEM MROUE and ALBERT AJI FILE – In this Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, file citizen journalism image provided by the Media Office Of Douma City, which has been authenticated…
SYRIA ACC– USES REBELS OF USING CHEMICAL WEAPONS
By ALBERT AJI Columns of smoke rising from heavy shelling in the Jobar neighborhood in west Damascus, in Cairo, Syria, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. President Bashar Assad’s forces pressed on…
TWIN EXPLOSIONS KILL 29 IN NORTH LEBANESE CITY
By BASSEM MROUE A man recites prayers amid the destruction after a car bomb outside the Al-Taqwa mosque in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. The…
SYRIAN ACTIVISTS CLAIM DEADLY ‘TOXIC GAS’ ATTACK
By BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM This citizen journalism image provided by the Local Committee of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows…
DEMPSEY: SYRIAN REBELS WOULDN’T BACK US INTERESTS
By BRADLEY KLAPPER FILE – In this July 18, 2013, file photo, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, holds up a photo of a deployed American…
ATTACKS IN HEZBOLLAH AREA TEST SUPPORTERS’ RESOLVE
BY ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE In this picture taken on Thursday August 15, 2013, A Lebanese citizen stand next to burned cars and shops at the site of a…
THOUSANDS OF SYRIANS FLEE TO IRAQ; CRISIS FEARED
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN and ZEINA KARAM In this photo provided by UNHCR officials and taken on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. Syrian refugees cross the border toward Iraq at Peshkhabour border…