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Richard Engel (born September 16, 1973) is an American journalist and author who is the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News. [ 1] He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008, after serving as the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut bureau chief. [ 2] Before joining NBC in May 2003, Engel reported on the start of the 2003 ...
Social media. As in the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, the Internet played a major role in the organization and coverage of the protests/armed-uprising. As of 2011 the largest Facebook page in support of the Syrian uprising was "The Syrian Revolution 2011", which claimed more than 383,000 followers. The page, co-founded by Fida al-Sayed ...
The United Nations announced late Tuesday that an agreement had been reached with Syria to reopen the main border crossing from Turkey to its rebel-held northwest for six months. U.N. Secretary ...
Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, "Mick" Mulroy, commented that the strikes were likely conducted in Syria rather than Iraq in order to avoid issues for the Iraqi government. See also. December 2019 United States airstrikes in Iraq and Syria; Eastern Syria insurgency
The earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday has brought further devastation to rebel-held towns near Aleppo, threatening a new humanitarian crisis exacerbated by winter and civil war.
An attack on a military bus in Syria's east killed 23 government troops and wounded more than 10, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor said Friday, blaming the Islamic State ...
The NBC News Team kidnapping in Syria took place in late 2012 in the midst of the Syrian Civil War, when US journalist Richard Engel, chief foreign correspondent of NBC News, with his five-member reporting crew were abducted by armed militants. Taken hostage on 13 December 2012 near the Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing when crossing into Syria ...
v. t. e. The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided conflict in Syria involving various state-sponsored and non-state actors. In March 2011, popular discontent with the rule of Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring protests in the region.