About Author: Bassem Mroue
Posts by Bassem Mroue
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Ceasefire brings relative quiet to parts of Syria
Posted on 27.02.2016 | No CommentsA ceasefire brought relative quiet to parts of Syria for the first time in years on Saturday, offering civilians rare respite from Russian and Syrian government airstrikes despite some limited breaches of the agreement brokered by Washington and Moscow. -
At least 37 killed after twin suicide blasts in southern Beirut
Posted on 12.11.2015 | No CommentsTwin suicide bombing struck a Shiite suburb in southern Beirut on Thursday evening, killing at least 37 people and wounding scores more in one of the deadliest attacks in years, a Lebanese official said. -
Islamic State controls Palmyra and heritage site
Posted on 21.05.2015 | No CommentsIslamic State militants overran the famed archaeological site at Palmyra early on Thursday, just hours after seizing the central Syrian town, activists and officials said. -
Opponents trade blame for poison gas attack in Syria
Posted on 12.04.2014 | No CommentsSyrian government media and rebel forces said Saturday that poison gas had been used in a central village, blaming each other for an attack that reportedly injured scores of people. -
Syrian conflict marks 3rd anniversary as gov’t troops advance in rebel-held town
Posted on 15.03.2014 | No CommentsSyrian troops advanced in a major rebel-held town near the Lebanese border amid heavy bombardment from warplanes, artillery and tanks as the country's bloody conflict marked its third anniversary Saturday, state media and activists said. -
Fatal blast rocks Hezbollah area in Beirut
Posted on 02.01.2014 | No CommentsAn explosion rocked a stronghold of the Shiite Hezbollah group in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, killing at least five people, setting cars ablaze and sending a column of black smoke above the Beirut skyline. -
Beirut bombing kills prominent pro-western politician, 4 others
Posted on 27.12.2013 | No CommentsA powerful car bomb tore through a business district in the centre of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday, setting cars ablaze and killing a prominent pro-western politician and four other people. -
Syrian Kurdish fighters capture border crossing on Iraq border: activists
Posted on 26.10.2013 | No CommentsSyrian Kurdish fighters captured Saturday the sole border post held by al Qaeda-linked groups on their border with Iraq, a major source of the militants' support, activists and an Iraqi official said. -
Bombing near checkpoint outside Damascus kills 16 soldiers: Syrian activists
Posted on 19.10.2013 | No CommentsSyrian rebels assaulted a checkpoint in a pro-government suburb of Damascus on Saturday, setting off a suicide car bomb that killed 16 soldiers, activists said. -
Syria’s Bashar Assad says it’s too early to say whether he’ll run again for president
Posted on 04.10.2013 | No CommentsSyrian President Bashar Assad said it's still too early to say whether he'll run for re-election next year, but that he would refrain from seeking a third term -- if he feels that's what most Syrians want him to do. -
Syrian troops attack hills around rebel-held Maaloula village
Posted on 09.09.2013 | No CommentsSyrian troops launched an attack Monday on hills overlooking a Christian-majority village near the capital Damascus, two days after rebel forces captured the ancient community, an activist group said. -
Twin explosions in Lebanon kill at least 29, wound over 350
Posted on 23.08.2013 | No CommentsTwin car bombs exploded Friday outside mosques in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, killing at least 29 people, wounding more than 350 and wreaking major destruction in the country's second largest city, officials said.
