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Syrian displaced people walk next to ancient Roman era ruins where they have set their tends in Sarmada district, north of Idlib city, Syria, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. Fallout from the 2-month-old war in Ukraine is worsening long-term humanitarian crises elsewhere, including in Syria. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

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Syrians in desperate need of aid hit hard by Ukraine fallout
By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press
Sun,05/08/22-1:06AM , 803 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — Umm Khaled hardly leaves the tent where she lives in northwest Syria, and she says she doesn’t pay attention to the news. But she knows one reason why it is getting harder and harder to feed herself and her children: Ukraine.
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This photo provided by the family of Mohammed-Nour Mattar, shows Syrian journalist Mohammed Nour Matar interviewing a man while filming a documentary about primitive ways of refining oil, in the Raqqa countryside of Syria, August 2013. Matar is among thousands of people believed to have been seized by the Islamic State, the extremist group that seized large parts of Syria and Iraq in 2014 where it set up a so-called Islamic Caliphate and brutalized the population for years. Three years after the territorial defeat of the IS, thousands of people seized by the extremist group are still missing, and accountability for their captors remains elusive. (The Family of Mohammed Nour Matar, via AP)

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'We found nothing:' Thousands of IS victims still missing
By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press
Thu,04/21/22-1:48AM , 412 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — For journalist Amer Matar, a decade-long search for his younger brother has defined him and changed the course of his life, now dedicated to researching and documenting crimes committed by the Islamic State group in Syria.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, gestures while speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Damascus, Syria, Jan. 7, 2020. The next chapter of the war in Ukraine could see Russia bringing in greater numbers of battle-hardened fighters from Syria, observers say. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Syrian fighters ready to join next phase of Ukraine war
By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press
Mon,04/18/22-12:59AM , 479 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — During a visit to Syria in 2017, Vladimir Putin lavished praise on a Syrian general whose division played an instrumental role in defeating insurgents in the country’s long-running civil war. The Russian president told him his cooperation with Russian troops “will lead to great successes in the future.”
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Michel Eid, 88, works in his music shop, on Hamra street, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. From his small music shop, Eid witnessed the rise and fall of Lebanon through the changing fortunes of this famed boulevard for more than 60 years. Hamra Street once was home to the region's top movie theaters, shops selling international brands and cafes where intellectuals from around the Arab world gathered. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Once Lebanon's center of glamour, Hamra Street goes dark
By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press
Sun,02/13/22-12:19AM , 298 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — From his small music shop on Beirut’s Hamra Street, Michel Eid witnessed the rise and fall of Lebanon through the changing fortunes of this famed boulevard for more than 60 years.
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