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AMN Al-Masdar News
March 14, 2018
BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:00 A.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) continued their large-scale offensive inside the East Ghouta, Wednesday, seizing the last farms under militant control in the eastern part of this region. Led by their elite Tiger Forces and 4th Division, the Syrian Arab Army scored advances atÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 5, 2018
This photo released by the Syrian Red Crescent shows a convoy of vehicles of the Syrian Red Crescent arriving to Douma, eastern Ghouta, a suburb of ... BEIRUT (AP) — A U.N. convoy carrying desperately needed food and medicine to besieged civilians entered the war-ravaged eastern suburbs ofÃâà...
The Guardian
February 26, 2018
Beirut and Lebanon's recent history is inevitably coloured by the 34-day war in 2006 with Israel, which was triggered by a Hezbollah guerrilla operation in Israeli territory. The city of Beirut wasn't hit too hard, but the Hezbollah-dominated suburbs a short drive to the south were (the FCO still advises againstÃâà...
San Francisco Examiner
February 25, 2018
Nemr's family fled Lebanon's civil war in the 1980s when he was a toddler, trading their home near Beirut for one in Del Mar, a San Diego suburb. There, he discovered comedy, memorizing routines from comics like Dana Carvey. “I'd tell everybody when I grew up, I was going to be either a Ninja Turtle or aÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
February 21, 2018
BEIRUT (AP) — Doctors in Syria's rebel-controlled suburbs of Damascus said Wednesday they were unable to keep up with the staggering number of casualties, amid a ferocious bombing campaign by government forces that has targeted hospitals, apartment blocks and other civilian sites, killing andÃâà...
Naharnet
February 14, 2018
A residential building collapsed in a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Thursday killing a woman and her child and wounding a man, the National News Agency reported. NNA said the building, which partially collapsed in Ain el-Sekkeh neighborhood in Bourj al-Barajneh camp,Ãâà...
WTRF
December 31, 1999
BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian state media and an opposition monitoring group are reporting heavy clashes and government troops' progress on several fronts in the eastern suburbs of the capital Damascus. The government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media said troops on Saturday reached the center of theÃâà...
WTOP
December 31, 1999
Syrian state media and an opposition monitoring group said government forces have laid siege on the rebel-held town of Harasta, cutting it off from the rest of the suburbs known as eastern Ghouta. Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government forces have also cut off the mainÃâà...
