Kareem Fahim

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Istanbul Bureau Chief and Middle East Correspondent at The Washington Post

Istanbul bureau chief + Middle East correspondent for the @washingtonpost / @ameja member / [email protected]

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Kurdish militant leader jailed by Turkey tells his movement to disarm and dissolve

Feb 27, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Kareem Fahim |Beril Eski

ISTANBUL — Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish militant group that has fought a decades-long insurgency against Turkey, issued a call from prison on Thursday asking the movement he founded to lay down its arms and dissolve itself. The comments by Ocalan, who heads the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, were read at a news conference in Istanbul by Kurdish lawmakers and leaders who met with Ocalan on Thursday.
Kurdish militant leader jailed by Turkey tells his movement to disarm and dissolve

Feb 27, 2025 | stripes.com | Kareem Fahim |Beril Eski

Kurdish women, one waving a flag of the outlawed Kurdish rebel group, the PKK, applaud while lining the road, as the convoy carrying the body of U.S. citizen Keith Broomfield, killed in fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria, is driven by through Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, June 11, 2015. Broomfield was likely the first U.S. citizen to die fighting alongside Kurds against the Islamic State group.
Syrians emerging from dictatorship bristle at new threat from Israel

Feb 26, 2025 | msn.com | Louisa Loveluck |Abbie Cheeseman |Kareem Fahim

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Feb 26, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Louisa Loveluck |Abbie Cheeseman |Kareem Fahim

DAMASCUS — A steady drumbeat of Israeli attacks inside Syria is angering residents and unsettling the country’s new leaders, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubles down on a military campaign he says is aimed at neutering any future threat from Israel’s northern neighbor. The latest attacks occurred late Tuesday.
Palestinian Authority suspends Al Jazeera

Jan 2, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Claire Parker |Kareem Fahim |Hazem Balousha

3 minThe Palestinian Authority has suspended the operations of the Al Jazeera news channel in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, citing unspecified breaches of "laws and regulations," according to a statement Thursday by Mohammed Mustafa, the authority's prime minister.
How Syria's rebels overcame years of a bloody stalemate to topple Assad

Dec 21, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Kareem Fahim |Louisa Loveluck |Susannah George |Mohamad El Chamaa |Beril Eski

The Syrian regime's collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed - the circumstances were both serendipitous and part of a larger global realignment. 22 minISTANBUL - Rebels were barreling toward the Syrian capital, but the president's men were in no mood for the battle. For more than a week they had watched city after town fall to the rebellion. By Saturday, the insurgents were threatening Homs, a strategic fire wall of Bashar al-Assad's government.
New era in Syria as Bashar al-Assad is toppled by rebels

Dec 9, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Kareem Fahim |Mohamad El Chamaa

ISTANBUL - President Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s autocratic ruler, was ousted Sunday after a quarter century in power, toppled after an Islamist rebel offensive that hurtled through Syrian cities and towns, and finally Damascus, the capital and once-feared seat of Assad’s power, which fell with little sign of a fight. The Syrian leader, the scion of a family that ruled Syria for more than half a century, vanished in silence Sunday, abandoned by allies and friends.
New era in Syria as Bashar al-Assad is toppled by rebels

Dec 8, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Kareem Fahim |Mohamad El Chamaa

ISTANBUL - President Bashar al-Assad, Syria's autocratic ruler, was ousted Sunday after a quarter century in power, toppled after an Islamist rebel offensive that hurtled through Syrian cities and towns, and finally Damascus, the capital and once-feared seat of Assad's power, which fell with little sign of a fight. The Syrian leader, the scion of a family that ruled Syria for more than half a century, vanished in silence Sunday, abandoned by allies and friends.
Syrian rebels take Hama, a second major city, in another blow to Assad

Dec 5, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Kareem Fahim |Mohamad El Chamaa

ISTANBUL - An Islamist rebel group said Thursday that it had taken control of Hama, Syria's fourth largest city, dealing another significant blow to President Bashar al-Assad less than a week after his forces ceded Aleppo in the face of a breakneck rebel advance.
Syrian rebels take new city as army announces withdrawal from Hama

Dec 5, 2024 | msn.com | Mohamad El Chamaa |Niha Masih |Vivian Ho |Kareem Fahim

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