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The group chat catching fleeing ISIS fighters | Popular Front

January 19, 2019January 22, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

I was a guest on Jake Hanrahan’s podcast Popular Front last week to discuss low-tech ways that non-government forces are catching Islamic State group fighters on the run from their collapsed ‘caliphate’ in Syria and Iraq. Listen to the episode here:

 

As clock ticks, little progress visible on Idlib deal | AFP

October 4, 2018October 4, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[A joint piece with colleague Tony Gamal Gabriel, published here on October 4, 2018]

The clock is ticking to implement a Russian-Turkish deal for the Syrian rebel region of Idlib, but its terms remain hazy and little has changed on the ground.

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Confusion among Syria rebels as Idlib deadline nears | AFP

October 1, 2018October 2, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[A joint piece with Beirut’s Deputy Bureau Chief Layal Abou Rahal, published here on October 1, 2018]

With a deadline for establishing a demilitarised zone around Syria’s Idlib inching closer, confusion and apprehension is rife among Turkish-backed rebels who fear it will cost them their last stronghold.

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Live from Idlib, an American broadcasts from Syria’s last rebel zone | AFP

September 23, 2018September 23, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on September 23, 2018]

Beirut (AFP) – Pointing to a green screen as if presenting a weather forecast, Bilal Abdul Kareem analyses the Turkish-Russian deal over Syria’s Idlib, broadcasting in his native English from inside the war-torn country’s last rebel stronghold.

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As Syria rebels quit Douma, questions linger over detainees, activists | AFP

April 13, 2018April 16, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on April 13, 2018]

Damascus (Syria) (AFP) – As Syrian rebels evacuate their holdout town of Douma, hope is dwindling that four iconic activists and hundreds of others suspected to have been kidnapped there will be found alive.

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Broken by siege, Syria rebels face worse loss yet in Ghouta | AFP

April 3, 2018April 4, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here April 4, 2018]

Beirut (AFP) – The expected loss of Eastern Ghouta will deal Syria’s fragmented rebels their biggest blow yet, leaving them unable to threaten President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus and increasingly subservient to competing global interests.

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Syria rebels lose heavyweight with collapse of Islamist faction | AFP

August 17, 2017August 21, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here August 17, 2017]

Beirut (AFP) – Syria’s opposition has lost one of its most powerful factions with the collapse of Islamist heavyweight Ahrar al-Sham, which once walked a fine line between jihadists and more mainstream rebels.

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