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Michael Jansen

Michael Jansen

Middle East Correspondent

Michael Jansen is Middle East correspondent for the Irish Times.

A member of the Free Syrian Army aims his weapon as he takes up a defensive position in Deir al-Zor. Photograph: Khalil Ashawi/Reuters
Syrian troops fight rebels at Sayida Zeinab shrine

Sunni jihadis threaten to desroy tomb of Prophet Muhammad’s granddaughter

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, left, speaks during an interview with a German newspaper in Damascus. Photograph: Reuters/Sana/Handout
Assad warns Britain and France against arming rebels

Syrian president claims it would result in terrorism being exported back to Europe

Residents of Qusayr carry bags after visiting their houses to collect belongings. Photograph: Reuters/Rami Bleibel
Strategic Syrian town of Qusayr reduced to rubble

Only the Shia and Sunni mosques have survived the onslaught

A doctor treats a Syrian refugee, who fled the fighting in Qusayr, in Minieh Hospital. Photograph: Omar Ibrahim/Reuters
Tripoli hospital struggles with influx of Syrian fighters

Rented Lebanese facility that takes in wounded is running out of cash

Relatives of Lulu Abdallah Awad mourn over her body during her funeral in Shi’ite town of Hermel. Photograph: Reuters
One more death in town caught in bloodletting

Border region caught between fire from both sides in Syria conflict

Lebanese Army soldiers patrol the the Sunni frontier village of Arsal, a bastion of the Syrian rebels, which was rocketed yesterday by Syrian aircraft in a tit-for-tat attack for Tuesday’s rebel missile strikes on the Shia town of Hermel, a Hizbullah stronghold. Photograph: Reuters/Ahmad Shalha
Syria conflict takes toll on Beirut politics

Lebanese unable to form cabinet as politicians take sides and stoke tensions

Syrian refugees wait for treatment at a Doctors of the World medical centre at the Al Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria. Photograph: Reuters.
Rockets strike Lebanese village near the border with Syria, killing one civilian

Air raids launched against positions held by rebels in the Minnigh military airbase in Aleppo province

Lebanese Army soldiers remove barricades after months of clashes between Sunni muslims and the small Alawite community in Tripoli. Photograph: Reuters.
Factions urged to aid inquiry into embassy protester death in Lebanon

President Suleiman calls on Shia Hizbullah and Iran to help investigation

Hizbullah supporters attack a bus carrying anti-Hizbullah protesters in front of the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday. Photograph: Reuters
Violence flares at anti-Hizbullah protest

Clash outside Iranian embassy in Beirut leads to death and injuries

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