Roba El Husseini ربى (@robahusseini) 's Twitter Profile
Roba El Husseini ربى

@robahusseini

Deputy Bureau Chief, Baghdad @AFP former Syria and Lebanon correspondent. Yale @WorldFellows. In love with Syria. Retweets are not always endorsements

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linkhttp://www.afp.com/ calendar_today28-08-2011 14:13:43

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On #Syria/Israel + Israel bombed Wednesday Syrian army headquarters in Damascus + Strikes came after it warned the Islamist-led government to leave the Druze minority after sectarian clashes killed nearly 250 people. + Syria's new authorities have been in talks with Israel +

On #Syria/Israel

+ Israel bombed Wednesday Syrian army headquarters in Damascus 
+ Strikes came after it warned the Islamist-led government to leave the Druze minority after sectarian clashes killed nearly 250 people.
+ Syria's new authorities have been in talks with Israel
+
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In a video that went viral, a Syrian Druze elder was humiliated by having his moustache shaved off. Hours after his family lost contact with him, an anonymous caller taunted them that he was dead. His granddaughter Christine said "my grandfather was a peaceful man. When

In a video that went viral, a Syrian Druze elder was humiliated by having his moustache shaved off. Hours after his family lost contact with him, an anonymous caller taunted them that he was dead.

His granddaughter Christine said "my grandfather was a peaceful man. When
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The Middle East wire is full of stories of people killed in sectarian clashes, bombings, malnutrition, fires, summary executions... No area is spared Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan... Latest from Iraq: Shopping mall fire kills more than 60 rfi.fr/en/internation…

The Middle East wire is full of stories of people killed in sectarian clashes, bombings, malnutrition, fires, summary executions... No area is spared 
Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan...

Latest from Iraq: Shopping mall fire kills more than 60
rfi.fr/en/internation…
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Armed tribes supported by Syria's Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters outside Sweida Friday a day after government troops withdrew from the Druze-majority city, the warring parties said. Follow AFP News Agency coverage 👇 yahoo.com/news/syria-tri…

Armed tribes supported by Syria's Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters outside Sweida Friday a day after government troops withdrew from the Druze-majority city, the warring parties said.

Follow <a href="/AFP/">AFP News Agency</a> coverage 👇
yahoo.com/news/syria-tri…
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Just minutes after posting this, Al Jazeera’s correspondent أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif was killed 🕯️ The number of journalists killed by Israel in Gaza now exceeds those killed in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, and the Afghanistan War, COMBINED…

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استشهاد الزملاء الصحفيين مريم أبو دقة، حسام المصري، محمد سلامة، ومعاذ أبو طه، جراء قصف قوات الاحتلال مجمع ناصر الطبي في خانيونس جنوب قطاع غزة.

استشهاد الزملاء الصحفيين مريم أبو دقة، حسام المصري، محمد سلامة، ومعاذ أبو طه، جراء قصف قوات الاحتلال مجمع ناصر الطبي في خانيونس جنوب قطاع غزة.
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BREAKING: Four journalists, including a freelancer who worked with AP, are among eight killed by an Israeli strike on southern Gaza's Nasser Hospital. apnews.com/article/mideas…

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Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the The Associated Press. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.

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"Construction work has intensified on a major new structure at a facility key to Israel’s long-suspected atomic weapons program, according to satellite images analyzed by experts." "They say it could be a new reactor or a facility to assemble nuclear arms — but secrecy shrouding

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a pardon on Monday for prominent activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has been in jail since 2019, state-linked media reported. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉