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In this photo released by the official Syrian state news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, second left, speaks with an Algerian rescue team at the site of destroyed buildings fallowing devastating earthquake, in Aleppo province, Syria, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. Rescuers pulled several people alive from the shattered remnants of buildings on Friday, some who survived more than 100 hours trapped under crushed concrete in the bitter cold after a catastrophic earthquake slammed Turkey and Syria. (SANA via AP)

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Quake brings chance for Syria's Assad to ease isolation
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB - Associated Press
Fri,02/10/23-12:13PM , 355 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — On his first public visit touring the destruction wreaked by this week’s deadly earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, Syrian President Bashar Assad on Friday pointedly shamed the West for shunning his country.
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Lebanese President Michel Aoun waves for his supporters during a speech to his supporters gathered outside the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 30, 2022. Lebanon has been without a president for over a month, and its legislators since late September have been unable to vote for a new president. President Aoun completed his six-year term on Oct. 30. Lebanon’s deeply-divided parliament has met nine times to elect a successor and failed every time, worsening political paralysis and stalling measures to alleviate a crippling economic crisis that has pulled three-quarters of the population into poverty. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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EXPLAINER: Why can’t Lebanon elect a president?
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB - Associated Press
Thu,12/08/22-11:59PM , 493 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon has been without a president for over a month, its legislators unable to agree on a new head of state.
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Children play near open sewage in the Salaheddine camp in northwestern Syria on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. In recent weeks, thousands of cholera cases have swept across the crisis-stricken countries of Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

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Conflict, crisis fuel cholera surge across Mideast hot spots
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB - Associated Press
Fri,11/04/22-1:23AM , 436 Reads
BHANINE, Lebanon (AP) — Shadia Ahmed panicked as rainwater flooded her shack one night, drenching her seven children. The next morning, the kids were seized by vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms.
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An artificial pond is seen at an agricultural field at Harf Beit Hasna village, in Dinnieh province, north Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. Farmers in a small mountainous town in Lebanon's northern Dinnieh province once could rely on rain to irrigate their crops and sustain a living. But climate change and the country's crippling economic crisis has left their soil dry and their produce left to rot. They rely on the little rain they can collect in their innovative artificial ponds to make enough money to feed themselves, as they live without government electricity, water, and services. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Lebanon's dwindling rain leaves farmers struggling for water
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB - Associated Press
Fri,09/30/22-1:22AM , 353 Reads
HARF BEIT HASNA, Lebanon (AP) — Farmers in a small town perched on a northern Lebanese mountain have long refused to accept defeat even as the government abandoned them to a life off the grid.
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