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@LizSly

Washington Post Beirut bureau chief covering Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and beyond. RT=Gosh, hmm or huh. Favorites are my filing cabinet.

Beirut, Iraq, Syria if only
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Joined April 2009

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  1. 20 hours ago

    The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) marching in Beirut's Hamra St today

    20 replies 90 retweets 76 likes
  2. Sep 3

    See what ISIS is reduced to. Cornered, injured, broken. From every town in Iraq they were kicked out of.

    4 replies 26 retweets 38 likes
  3. Aug 15

    Omg, this. Kudos to the ultra-cool Vice reporter who deadpanned these insights. "Tough to top? What do you mean?"

    1 reply 5 retweets 13 likes
  4. Jul 29
    Replying to

    3. It was forbidden to take photos of Hezbollah faces. Here, they posed for us with their vehicles but hid their faces

    10 replies 25 retweets 39 likes
  5. Jul 29
    Replying to

    2. A highlight of the trip was the black hole behind the truck. It leads to a big tunnel/cave complex used by Nusra

    1 reply 24 retweets 26 likes
  6. Jul 29

    Part of the epic media convoy taken by Hezbollah today on a 10-hour tour of the Arsal area taken from Nusra. 46 vehicles in all

    12 replies 180 retweets 178 likes
  7. Jul 13

    People coming out of Mosul. I don't think we have any idea what a humanitarian tragedy this has been

    290 replies 8,365 retweets 6,873 likes
  8. Jun 30

    The US embassy in Lebanon holds its July 4 party in the lovely ruins of Faqra 🇱🇧 🇺🇸

    5 retweets 9 likes
  9. Apr 7

    Footage on Syrian state TV now of the airbase that was hit by 59 US Tomahawk missiles overnight

    5 replies 99 retweets 36 likes
  10. Apr 4

    Just when you thought Syria couldn't get any worse: another gas attack. Good morning.

    47 replies 451 retweets 241 likes
  11. Mar 16
    Replying to

    Here's the CENTCOM release on the strike they say was in Idlib but may be the one just across the border in Aleppo

    13 retweets 9 likes
  12. Mar 5
    Replying to

    Some people asked about the state of the Euphrates bridge at Manbij. I was mostly noticing how beautiful it was

    5 replies 13 retweets 37 likes
  13. Mar 4
    Replying to

    Here's a photo of the Sulaiman Shah tomb. A beautiful, tranquil spot.

    3 replies 7 retweets 20 likes
  14. Mar 2

    Syrian state TV announcing that it has recaptured Palmyra from ISIS (again).

    2 replies 49 retweets 35 likes
  15. Feb 17
    Replying to

    . Hezbollah emailed their translation. The paraphrase is accurate (except "present" not "past"

    3 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
  16. Jan 23

    Talking Syria peace in the snow. 3 years ago in Montreux. Today in Astana. But still no peace.

    36 retweets 24 likes
  17. Jan 22

    Arrived in Astana for Syria peace talks earlier today. Minus 17 C. Still dark at 8:30 am. Someone is trolling us

    11 replies 56 retweets 116 likes
  18. Jan 11

    3 of the people we met on our N. Syria trip. Rojda Felat, YPJ; Abu Amjad, SDF; Abu Issa, FSA-Raqqa. It's complicated

    9 replies 12 retweets 20 likes
  19. Jan 2

    Syrian rebels suspend negotiations on the Russia-Turkey peace process, but not the ceasefire, which barely exists

    4 replies 26 retweets 13 likes
  20. 16 Dec 2016

    People in Aleppo today waiting for the evacuation buses. They didn't come. It looks so cold. And destroyed.

    35 replies 698 retweets 318 likes

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