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A look at the long line of attacks preceding the killing of Wissam al-Hassan, most of them against opponents of Syria.
Middle East Last Modified: 20 Oct 2012 18:26 GMT

Egyptian journalist Dina Abdel-Mooti Darwich has become the first winner of a new EU-funded press freedom award commemorating slain Lebanese writer Samir Kassir.

Archive Last Modified: 02 Jun 2006 13:16 GMT
Every morning before she heads to work, Lebanese journalist Dolly Ghanem checks to see if her car has been booby-trapped.
Cilina Nasser in Beirut, Lebanon
Archive Last Modified: 21 Oct 2005 11:26 GMT
The assassination of a leading leftist politician in Beirut on Tuesday has further heightened fears among many Lebanese that a hit list targeting anti-Syrian figures in the country really exists.
Cilina Nasser in Beirut
Archive Last Modified: 22 Jun 2005 02:47 GMT

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is to send a UN mission back to Lebanon to ensure all Syrian forces have withdrawn, amid reports that Syrian intelligence agents remain.

Archive Last Modified: 11 Jun 2005 06:27 GMT
Syria's UN ambassador has called US accusations that Damascus is interfering in Lebanon a smear campaign and insists that all Syrian intelligence operatives have been withdrawn.
Archive Last Modified: 11 Jun 2005 03:04 GMT
Throwing rose petals and waving red, white and green Lebanese flags, hundreds of mourners lined the streets of central Beirut for the funeral procession of an anti-Syrian journalist.
Archive Last Modified: 04 Jun 2005 14:15 GMT
Hundreds of mourners have lined the streets of central Beirut for the funeral procession of a journalist, amid calls for an international investigation into his death.
Archive Last Modified: 04 Jun 2005 10:30 GMT
FBI agents are helping Lebanon's investigation into the assassination of prominent anti-Syrian journalist Samir Kassir, judicial officials say.
Archive Last Modified: 03 Jun 2005 19:10 GMT

About 200 journalists have gathered in Martyrs' Square in central Beirut, observing an hour of silence in tribute to their prominent anti-Syrian colleague, Samir Kassir, who was killed on Thursday when a bomb blew up his car.

Cilina Nasser in Beirut
Archive Last Modified: 03 Jun 2005 18:56 GMT
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