Zeina Karam
Deputy News Director, Europe at Associated Press
AP's deputy news director for Europe. Previously AP's news director for Lebanon 🇱🇧 Syria 🇸🇾 Iraq 🇮🇶
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Dec 18, 2024 |
normantranscript.com | Bassem Mroue |Zeina Karam
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Dec 11, 2024 |
argus-press.com | Zeina Karam |Sarah El Deeb
BEIRUT (AP) — The last time Syrian President Bashar Assad was in serious trouble was 10 years ago, at the height of the country’s civil war, when his forces lost control over parts of the largest city, Aleppo, and his opponents were closing in on the capital, Damascus. Back then, he was rescued by his chief international backer, Russia, and longtime regional ally Iran, which along with Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah militia helped Assad's forces retake Aleppo, tipping the war firmly in his favor.
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Dec 9, 2024 |
fox2detroit.com | Bassem Mroue |Zeina Karam
Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali said early Sunday that the government is ready to "extend its hand" to the opposition and hand over its functions to a transitional government. "I am in my house and I have not left, and this is because of my belonging to this country," Jalili said in a video statement. He said he would go to his office to continue work in the morning and called on Syrian citizens not to deface public property.
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Dec 9, 2024 |
madison.com | Zeina Karam |Abby Sewell
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country Sunday, bringing to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto control as his country fragmented in a brutal civil war that became a proxy battlefield for regional and international powers. The exit of Assad, 59, stood in stark contrast to his first months as Syria's unlikely president in 2000, when many hoped he would be a young reformer after three decades of his father's iron grip.
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Dec 8, 2024 |
post-gazette.com | Abdulrahman Shaheen |Sarah El Deeb |Abby Sewell |Zeina Karam
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Sunday that the sudden collapse of the Syrian government under Bashar Assad is a “fundamental act of justice” after decades of repression, but it was “a moment of risk and uncertainty” for the Mideast. Biden spoke at the White House hours after after rebel groups completed a takeover of the country following more than a dozen years of violent civil war and decades of leadership by Assad and his family.
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