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Television show “Homeland” irks Lebanese and Israelis

Bassem Mroue, Elizabeth A. Kennedy

Western nations expel Syrian envoys over massacre

Elizabeth A. Kennedy

Lebanese intellectuals and journalists protest during a vigil sit-in to show their support to the Syrian protesters who demonstrate against the Syrian President Bashar Assad, at the Martyrs square, in downtown of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday Aug. 8, 2011. Despite five months of blistering attacks on dissent, the Syrian regime has yet to score a decisive victory against a pro-democracy uprising determined to bring down the country's brutal dictatorship. President Bashar Assad still has the military muscle to level pockets of resistance, but the conflict has robbed him of almost all international support. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

International pressure on Syria grows

Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Suzan Fraser

Lebanese intellectuals and journalists protest during a vigil sit-in to show their support to the Syrian protesters who demonstrate against the Syrian President Bashar Assad, at the Martyrs square, in downtown of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday Aug. 8, 2011. Despite five months of blistering attacks on dissent, the Syrian regime has yet to score a decisive victory against a pro-democracy uprising determined to bring down the country's brutal dictatorship. President Bashar Assad still has the military muscle to level pockets of resistance, but the conflict has robbed him of almost all international support. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Syria defies world reproach with new military raid

Elizabeth A. Kennedy

Two protesters carry posters with pictures of unidentified relatives in Syria, with the Syrian flag colors painted on their faces during an anti-Syrian regime rally near the Syrian embassy in Cairo, Egypt Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Syrian troops fired Tuesday on residents who set up makeshift roadblocks to prevent the advance of tanks ringing the city of Hama, which has become a flashpoint of the uprising against autocratic President Bashar Assad, activists said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) (AP)

Syrian crackdown on town may be war crime

Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Bassem Mroue

Muslim Brotherhood female supporters hold banners with colors of the Syrian independence flag with Arabic that reads "Your brothers in Egypt, we support our people in Syria, Muslims support Muslims to relieve them from injustice", during an anti-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime in Cairo, Egypt Friday, June 24, 2011. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood supporters gathered near the Syrian embassy in Cairo following the weekly Friday prayers chanting anti-Syrian regime. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) (AP)

Opposition to meet in Syria after bloody weekend

Elizabeth A. Kennedy

Syrian troops arrive at a hill overlooking Turkey-Syria border, about three kilometers inside Syria, as Syrians waiting to enter Turkey rushed to the crossing point near the Turkish village of Guvecci in Hatay province, Turkey, Thursday, June 23, 2011. Syrian activists claimed that troops backed by tanks and snipers have entered a village along the Turkish border as the regime expands its crackdown on a pro-democracy movement that has posed the gravest challenge to President Bashar Assad's rule(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) (AP)

More than 1,500 refugees flee Syria in one day

Elizabeth A. Kennedy

Syrian troops push to Turkish border, villagers flee

Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Burhan Ozbilici

Lebanese army soldier, sits atop armored personnel carrier (APC), near to portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad, on Saturday June 18 2011, on a street in Tripoli where a clashes broke between Sunni and Alawite groups on Friday, after a demonstration of the anti-Syrian regime protesters in Tripoli, northern Lebanon. A senior member of a Lebanese political party allied with Syria and an off-duty soldier were killed Friday after gunmen opened fire and lobbed a grenade near hundreds of people holding an anti-Assad protest in northern Lebanon, a security official said in Beirut. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

7 killed in Syria as protests turn violent

Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Zeina Karam

A Syrian refugee woman brings laundry to an irrigation canal in a camp, in Boynuyogun, Turkey, Tuesday, June 14, 2011. According to the Turkish Prime Minister's office the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey stands at more than 8.500 people.As the government expands its crackdown on dissent, activists report tanks entering the northern town of Maaret al-Numan on Tuesday and other villages near Jisr al-Shughour.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (AP)

Tanks, troops move to snuff out Syria resistance

Selcan Hacaoglu, Elizabeth A. Kennedy

In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired Saturday April 23, 2011, by The Associated Press, Syrian anti-government protesters carry the coffin of an activist who was killed on Friday during his funeral procession in Quaboun near Damascus, Syria, Saturday, April 23, 2011. Syrian security forces fired on tens of thousands of mourners during funeral processions Saturday, killing several people following the deadliest day of the uprising against authoritarian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo) (AP)

Syria crushes protests with troops, tanks

Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Diaa Hadid

Poll: More Afghans support attacks on American troops

Elizabeth A. Kennedy

Beirut sectarian battle kills 1, wounds 3

Elizabeth A. Kennedy

Syria bans full Islamic face veils at universities

Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Albert Aji

Suicide bombers target embassies in Iraq, kill 42

Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Qassim Abdul-zahra

Arab world says hopes in Obama are dwindling

Elizabeth A. Kennedy