Bassem Mroue
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Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press since 1992.
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Bassem Mroue
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· Sep 5
Israel strikes high-rise building and threatens to hit more in Gaza City offensive
Israel has struck a high-rise building in Gaza City after warning residents to evacuate. Strikes elsewhere in Gaza City killed at least 27 people, health officials said.
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Bassem Mroue
@bmroue.bsky.social
· May 30
Cyprus offers Syrian families money to resettle and work permits for main earners
Cyprus says it will offer Syrian families money to help them resettle back in their homeland and allow the family head to remain on the island nation for up to three years to work as part of a volunta...
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Bassem Mroue
@bmroue.bsky.social
· May 28
Who is Mohammed Sinwar, the Hamas leader Israel says it killed?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the man believed to be the head of Hamas’ armed wing, Mohammed Sinwar, has been killed, apparently confirming his death in a recent strike in the Gaza St...
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Bassem Mroue
@bmroue.bsky.social
· May 27
Swedish man charged over 2015 killing of a Jordanian pilot by the Islamic State group
A Swedish man has been indicted as a member of the Islamic State group in connection with the killing of a Jordanian pilot whose plane went down in Syria on Christmas Eve 2014.
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Bassem Mroue
@bmroue.bsky.social
· May 27
How is the new Gaza aid plan supposed to work -- and why are so many aid groups against it?
A U.S.-backed group that is slated to take over aid distribution in Gaza says it's started operations despite opposition from the U.N. and the unexpected resignation of its executive director.
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Bassem Mroue
@bmroue.bsky.social
· May 27
Only 900 speakers of the Sanna language remain. Now Cyprus' Maronites are mounting a comeback
Only about 900 people in the world speak Cypriot Maronite Arabic. The offshoot of Syrian Arabic also known as Sanna, had been passed on orally over the centuries.
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Bassem Mroue
@bmroue.bsky.social
· May 26
Head of controversial US-backed Gaza aid group resigns
WASHINGTON: The head of a controversial US-backed group preparing to move aid into the Gaza Strip announced his abrupt resignation Sunday, adding fresh uncertainty over the effort’s future. In a state...
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Bassem Mroue
@bmroue.bsky.social
· May 26
Tens of thousands flock to see a Spanish saint's remains more than 440 years after her death
Catholic worshippers have for weeks flocked to Alba de Tormes, a town ringed by rolling pastures in western Spain where the remains of the Spanish saint, mystic and 16th-century religious reformer Sai...
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Bassem Mroue
@bmroue.bsky.social
· May 24
Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP
Several Palestinians and Israeli soldiers say troops are systematically forcing Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for bombs and gunmen.
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Bassem Mroue
@bmroue.bsky.social
· May 24
South Lebanon votes in municipal elections that will test support for Hezbollah
Residents of southern Lebanon have voted in the country’s municipal elections that will test support for Hezbollah in the predominantly Shiite areas, months after the end of the destructive Israel-Hez...
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Bassem Mroue
@bmroue.bsky.social
· May 23
Iran and the US holding a fifth round of nuclear negotiations in Rome with enrichment a key issue
Iran and the United States are preparing for a fifth round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, with enrichment emerging as the key issue.
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Bassem Mroue
@bmroue.bsky.social
· May 23
Gaza's main hospital is overwhelmed with children in pain from malnutrition
The U.N. children’s agency says more than 9,000 children have been treated for malnutrition in Gaza this year, and food security experts say tens of thousands of cases are expected in the coming year.
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Bassem Mroue
@bmroue.bsky.social
· May 22
US and regional countries team up to resolve the issue of IS prisoners in Syria
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country, the United States, Syria and Iraq have formed a working group to try to resolve the issue of Islamic State group prisoners held in Syria.
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Bassem Mroue
@bmroue.bsky.social
· Apr 28
Hezbollah leader calls on government to work harder to end Israel's attacks on Lebanon
The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group is calling on the government to work harder on ending Israel’s attacks in the country a day after an Israeli airstrike hit a suburb of Beirut.
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