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Pilgrimage through a Syria at war

Monday 7 August 2017

"My last journey to Syria will remain etched in my memory, more like a pilgrimage than a reporting assignment," writes Rana Moussaoui, deputy bureau chief in Beirut who has spent years covering Syria's war from a distance.

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  • AFP / Karam Al-masri
  • AFP / Karam Al-masri

The last days in Aleppo

Wednesday 8 February 2017

In September, we brought you a blog, Covering Syria through hunger and fear, in which AFP’s Aleppo’s correspondent, Karam al-Masri, gave an idea of what life was like in the besieged city and Rana Moussaoui, AFP’s deputy bureau chief in Beirut, shared what it was like to hear from Karam each day.

Below they tell of the Karam’s harrowing last days in Aleppo, the final chapter of his years of reporting from the ravaged city.

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Covering Syria through hunger and fear

Monday 26 September 2016

For Karam al-Masri, AFP's reporter, photographer and videojournalist in rebel-held Aleppo, the past five years have been a series of tragedies: detention by the regime, and then the Islamic State group, the death of his parents in an air strike, the siege of his hometown, hunger and bombardment. Though it all, he has continued to report, with unwavering courage, the story of his ravaged city. 

Herewith his story, in his own words and those by Rana Moussaoui, his colleague in Beirut who works with him daily.

 

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