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Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi, center, speaks during a press conference about Sunday's parliamentary elections, at the interior ministry in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, May 16, 2022. Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group and its allies suffered losses in this weekend's parliamentary elections, with preliminary results Monday showing some of their most vocal opponents picking up more seats and several of their traditional partners routed out of the legislature. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Hezbollah, allies lose majority in Lebanon's parliament
By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press
Tue,05/17/22-4:13AM , 238 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group and its allies lost their parliamentary majority, final elections results showed Tuesday, while more than a dozen independent newcomers gained seats. The outcome signaled a shift in a country devastated by an ongoing financial meltdown and soaring poverty.
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A Hezbollah supporter holds up an Arabic banner that reads: "At your service Nasrallah," as he attends an election campaign, in Baalbek, east Lebanon, Friday, May 13, 2022. Despite a devastating economic collapse and multiple other crises gripping Lebanon, the culmination of decades of corruption and mismanagement, the deeply divisive issue of Hezbollah's weapons has been at the center of Sunday's vote for a new 128-member parliament. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Hezbollah weapons at the heart of Lebanon's elections Sunday
By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press
Sat,05/14/22-7:49AM , 177 Reads
BAALBEK, Lebanon (AP) — It was a sea of yellow as thousands of men, women and children waving Hezbollah flags and wearing the group’s trademark yellow caps rallied on a giant plot of land in the ancient eastern city of Baalbek in support of the heavily armed militant group.
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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 , 266 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 , 191 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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