Louisa Loveluck

Baghdad, London

🌴 @WashingtonPost reporter covering global crises. Previously: Baghdad, Beirut, and Cairo. DM me for Signal. [email protected].

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More than 30 killed by gunfire near US aid site in Gaza

3 weeks ago | postguam.com | Miriam Berger |Abbie Cheeseman |Louisa Loveluck |Hazem Balousha

JAFFA, Israel - Scores of Palestinians were killed or wounded while trying to reach a food distribution site in southern Gaza on Sunday, according to residents, medics and the local Health Ministry. At least 31 people were killed and another 170 injured - most with gunshot wounds to the extremities and upper body - according to health officials and medics who treated the victims.
More than 30 killed by gunfire near U.S. aid site in Gaza

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Miriam Berger |Abbie Cheeseman |Louisa Loveluck |Hazem Balousha

More than 30 killed by gunfire near U.S. aid site in Gaza (washingtonpost.com) More than 30 killed by gunfire near U.S. aid site in Gaza By Miriam Berger; Abbie Cheeseman; Louisa Loveluck; Hazem Balousha 2025060110582400 JAFFA, Israel — Scores of Palestinians were killed and wounded trying to reach a food distribution site in southern Gaza on Sunday, according to residents, medics and the local health ministry.
Syrian leader faces challenge of foreign militants who helped him win power

4 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Louisa Loveluck |Zakaria Zakaria

Zakaria ZakariaDAMASCUS, Syria — When Syrian insurgents rode victorious into Damascus late last year, their rebel leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, was relying, in part, on thousands of foreign fighters to help overthrow Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship. Six months on, Sharaa is president, and the continued presence of those same Islamist militants, who came from as far afield as Europe and Central Asia to join the revolution, could now pose a profound challenge to his political survival.
U.N. condemns U.S. aid system in Gaza after Israel opens fire on crowd

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Louisa Loveluck |Abbie Cheeseman |Cate Brown

U.N. condemns U.S. aid system in Gaza after Israel opens fire on crowd (washingtonpost.com) U.N. condemns U.S. aid system in Gaza after Israel opens fire on crowd By Louisa Loveluck; Abbie Cheeseman; Cate Brown 2025052811545400 JERUSALEM — A U.S.- and Israeli-backed process for distributing aid in the Gaza Strip faced growing criticism Wednesday after scores of Palestinians were wounded across two days of deliveries.
Gaza aid trucks looted amid ‘hunger, desperation, and anxiety,’ U.N. says

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Louisa Loveluck |Heidi Levine |Miriam Berger |Hazem Balousha

Gaza aid trucks looted amid ‘hunger, desperation, and anxiety,’ U.N. says (washingtonpost.com) Gaza aid trucks looted amid ‘hunger, desperation, and anxiety,’ U.N. says By Louisa Loveluck; Heidi Levine; Miriam Berger; Hazem Balousha 2025052318551000 JERUSALEM — Fifteen World Food Program trucks carrying aid were looted overnight in Gaza, the U.N. agency said Friday, underscoring the insecurity and desperation more than two months into Israel's blockade on food, water and aid to the shattered...
The fall of Assad’s informant state leaves Syria riven by betrayals

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Louisa Loveluck |Zakaria Zakaria |Salwan Georges

The fall of Assad’s informant state leaves Syria riven by betrayals (washingtonpost.com) The fall of Assad’s informant state leaves Syria riven by betrayals By Louisa Loveluck; Zakaria Zakaria; Salwan Georges 2025051908004600 DAMASCUS, Syria — The Assad regime made Syria an informant state, with surveillance that turned the country on itself.
Syrians rejoice after Trump pledge to lift crippling sanctions

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Louisa Loveluck |Zakaria Zakaria |Mohamad El Chamaa

Syrians rejoice after Trump pledge to lift crippling sanctions (washingtonpost.com) Syrians rejoice after Trump pledge to lift crippling sanctions By Louisa Loveluck; Zakaria Zakaria; Mohamad El Chamaa 2025051415405400 DAMASCUS, Syria — President Donald Trump's announcement from Saudi Arabia that his administration intends to lift wide-ranging sanctions on Syria sparked jubilation in the capital, Damascus, as a population long impoverished by the restrictions was finally able to hope for...
As Syria’s Druze minority reels from violence, Israel pursues an opening

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Louisa Loveluck |Zakaria Zakaria |Gerry Shih

As Syria’s Druze minority reels from violence, Israel pursues an opening (washingtonpost.com) As Syria’s Druze minority reels from violence, Israel pursues an opening By Louisa Loveluck; Zakaria Zakaria; Gerry Shih 2025051006003100 SWEIDA, Syria — Nervous Druze militiamen at checkpoints in southern Syria craned their necks in recent days to look inside stopped vehicles, sizing up drivers and bracing for new threats.
Izrael sa zapája do sektárskeho násilia v Sýrii. Podporil drúzsku menšinu

1 month ago | svet.sme.sk | Louisa Loveluck |Zakaria Zakaria

Letectvo bombardovalo útočníkov. Obyvatelia Damasku počas pohrebu Mohammeda Amera Kátiba, bývalého povstaleckého bojovníka, ktorý bol zabitý v utorok skoro ráno. (Zdroj: Lorenzo Tugnoli — The Washington Post)Text vyšiel pôvodne v denníku The Washington Post. Izraelská armáda sa v stredu zapojila do rozsiahlych sektárskych zrážok neďaleko Damasku. Izrael náletmi podporil sýrsku drúzsku menšinu, ktorej príslušníci bojovali so sunnitskými moslimskými bojovníkmi.
Israel launches strikes, intervenes in sectarian clashes near Damascus

1 month ago | seattletimes.com | Louisa Loveluck |Zakaria Zakaria

DAMASCUS, Syria — The Israeli military intervened in deadly sectarian clashes near Damascus on Wednesday, launching strikes in support of Syria’s Druze minority as its members battled Sunni Muslim fighters, but also threatening to unravel further the country’s fragile security situation. The capital was already on edge: In recent days, worsening violence between the Druze and Sunni gunmen resulted in dozens of people killed in two southern suburbs and scores more sent to local emergency rooms.