Showing posts with label Zeina Karam. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Hell on Earth

December 24, 2014 AP , Iraq 0 Comments
Women Excised From Public Life, Abused By IS

Zeina Karam, Dec. 23, 2014, AP

In Iraq's Mosul, the biggest city in the group's self-declared caliphate, "life for women has taken a 180-degree turn," said Hanaa Edwer, a prominent Iraqi human rights activist. "They are forbidding them from learning, forbidding them from moving around freely. The appearance of a woman is being forcefully altered."

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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Syria and Iran call it "an act of aggression"

December 09, 2014 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , News.yahoo.com 0 Comments
Syria, Allies Condemn Israeli Airstrikes

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) 

and Russian President Vladimir Putin

Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90
By Zeina Karam, Dec. 8, 2014, News.yahoo.com

BEIRUT (AP) — Russia on Monday demanded an explanation for Israeli airstrikes on two areas near Damascus, while the Syrian and Iranian foreign ministers called it an act of aggression that proves Israel is "in the same trench" with extremist groups fighting the Syrian government.

The attacks are unlikely to have a big impact. Israel has already struck inside Syria on several occasions in the course of the country's chaotic civil war, including a series of airstrikes near Damascus in May 2013. Those strikes, according to Israeli officials, targeted shipments of Iranian-made Fateh-110 missiles bound for the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group.Israeli warplanes struck near Damascus' international airport on Sunday, as well as outside a town close to the Lebanese border.

Syria's reaction has been relatively mute; in previous cases, Damascus has vowed to retaliate without actually doing so.

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