Kareem Chehayeb
Kareem Chehayeb is an author at Religion News Service.
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Turkish drones kill 3 in an attack on a local Christian militia in northeastern Syria, officials say
By Kareem Chehayeb and Bassem Mroue — February 29, 2024
BEIRUT (AP) — The force that was targeted, the local Christian Syriac police known as Sutoro, works under the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
Austria’s top diplomat appeals for a pause in Mideast fighting for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
By Bassem Mroue — February 29, 2024
BEIRUT (AP) — The Middle East has witnessed enough devastation and cruelty, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said after meeting his Lebanese counterpart in Beirut.
A gunman opens fire at a Lebanon mosque, killing one person and wounding several others
By Bassem Mroue — July 10, 2023
BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese army issued a statement saying that the armed man opened fire at a group of people as they were leaving the mosque, killing one of them.
Attack on Rushdie shows divisions among Lebanese Shiites
By Bassem Mroue — August 17, 2022
BEIRUT (AP) — The religious edict, or fatwa, urging Muslims to kill Rushdie was issued in 1989 by Iran's then-spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who accused the author of blasphemy for his portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad in the novel 'The Satanic Verses.'
Pope Francis to visit Lebanon in June during economic crisis
By Bassem Mroue — April 6, 2022
(AP) — Francis' trip will be the first visit by a pope to the Mediterranean nation since 2012.
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