Abby Sewell

I'll start by posting a chain with some links to my recent/relevant work (most, but not all, related to the war in Lebanon): apnews.com/article/leba...

Salah-mania grips Turkey after soccer star joins Trabzonspor club Via Serra Yedikardes apnews.com/article/turk...

A developmentally disabled man was killed by Israeli forces during a raid on a village in Syria’s Daraa province. The man, Muath Salama al-Baeer, was buried in the village of Jamla later Thursday as anger rose over Israeli incursions Via Ghaith AlSayed apnews.com/article/syri...

UN peacekeeping chief LaCroix says major questions hang over southern Lebanon as UNIFIL exit nears apnews.com/article/leba...;

Iraq rejects Syrian request to repatriate 4,000 suspected Islamic State detainees, official says apnews.com/article/syri...

Palestinian factions move to delay the first legislative elections in 20 years apnews.com/article/pale...

Hamas and the allied Islamic Jihad group have agreed to form an unlikely electoral coalition with a former top Fatah official who has close ties to the United Arab Emirates, Israel’s closest ally in the Middle East, Palestinian officials told The Associated Press.

Hamas, Islamic Jihad and powerful ex-Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan have formed an unlikely electoral alliance to challenge Fatah's dominance of the PA - if Palestinian legislative elections go forward as scheduled in November, which is a big if: apnews.com/article/pale...

Tensions flare in Syria’s Kurdish northeast as government integration deal moves forward With Hogir Al Abdo: apnews.com/article/syri...

As the last US troops pack up in Iraq, militias signal their weapons will stay Qassim Abdul-Zahra and I look at the twin deadlines looming on Sept. 30 apnews.com/article/iraq...

Israeli airstrikes on a village in southern Lebanon kill 12 people, including 2 children apnews.com/article/leba...

Lebanese man held prisoner in Israel is released and handed over to Lebanon apnews.com/article/leba...

Lebanon’s school year begins Sept. 15. But thousands of people displaced by war are still sheltering inside public schools. Officials say they have a plan to accommodate both students and displaced families. For parents, uncertainty over what comes next is growing.

Lebanon's school year starts Sept. 15, but thousands of displaced people still shelter in public schools. We visited a shelter in Tyre where about 200 families remain, with no political solution in sight that would allow them to go home. apnews.com/article/leba...

A year after Israeli strikes killed journalists at a hospital - including Mariam Dagga, a visual journalist who worked for @apnews.com and others - no one has been held accountable Via Sam Mednick: apnews.com/article/isra...

The death of Mohammad Ghamira, a former White Helmets volunteer suffering from hemophilia who was arrested and allegedly beaten in a Syrian jail, has stirred up dark memories of torture and abuse in detention centers under the Assad dynasty’s rule apnews.com/article/syri...

Right-wing Israeli activists are ramping up their fringe campaign to establish Jewish settlements inside Syria by staging frequent incursions across the border.

Fringe Israeli settler group is sneaking into Syria to try to claim land for a Jewish outpost Who are the "Pioneers of Bashan"? apnews.com/article/isra...

Trump says US-Lebanon flights can resume after meeting with Aoun Meanwhile, pilot zones got off to a rocky start. Lebanese army said Israeli soldiers opened fire as they were deploying. Unclear whether Israeli troops actually withdrew from any territory apnews.com/article/leba...

For now, there are no signs of threats turning into violence — because the deal is deadlocked. “There is no schedule for the withdrawal or anything else,” said a Lebanese military official. @bmroue.bsky.social and I on the tensions around the Lebanon-Israel deal: share.google/DEKkqwnRGn4I...

As the White House has soured on Israel’s war in Lebanon, Trump has shocked many in the region by pushing an alternative: Let Syria fight Hezbollah instead. Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has said he has no interest in doing so, but Trump has doubled down: apnews.com/article/leba...

As the U.S. and Iran exchanged escalating strikes on June 11, a plane carrying Qatari mediators was stranded on the tarmac in Tehran. @apnews.com colleagues and I delve into the tumultuous diplomatic process that led to the U.S.-Iran deal: apnews.com/article/us-i...

Mona Khalil, who spent more than two decades protecting sea turtles along Lebanon’s coastline, was critically injured in the Israeli strike on her home in the village of Mansouri earlier this month and died of her wounds Friday Via @joudsally.bsky.social apnews.com/article/leba...

A Hezbollah official told @apnews.com Iran has informed the militant group that Tehran will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until Israel announces publicly that it will comply with a “comprehensive ceasefire” in Lebanon and an end to military operations there apnews.com/article/iran...

Israeli military strikes Beirut suburbs in the lead-up to anticipated US-Iran deal apnews.com/article/iran...

Alleged spy's mysterious disappearance spotlights Israel’s intelligence networks in Lebanon @joudsally.bsky.social and I probe the curious case of an alleged Mossad agent who escaped Hezbollah detention, took refuge in the Ukrainian embassy - and then disappeared again: apnews.com/article/hezb...

Palestinians in Gaza mark anniversary of 1948 mass expulsion and say today's catastrophe is worse Deeply reported and heartbreaking story by Julia Frankel and Wafaa Shurafa apnews.com/article/nakb...

Israeli forces set up a camp in the Iraqi desert during Iran war, officials say With Qassim Abdul-Zahra (WSJ was first to report the existence of a secret Israeli base in Iraq, although according to our sources, it wasn't exactly a base) apnews.com/article/iraq...

War-battered Syria now sells itself as a safe corridor amid regional conflict apnews.com/article/syri...

Some maps cover broad swaths of Lebanon; others show specific buildings. Sometimes there is no warning at all before strikes, which have continued despite a nominal ceasefire Isabel DeBre delves into the Israeli military's warning maps in Lebanon: apnews.com/article/isra...

Lebanon resident recognizes family crucifix smashed by Israeli soldier in viral image Israel and Italy - via its UNIFIL peacekeeping force - both sent replacement crucifixes to Debel. The family opted to keep the Italian one. Via @joudsally.bsky.social apnews.com/article/leba...

“They were demolishing it gradually until they reached the main square and now, as you can see, there are no more houses" Israeli forces demolish homes in areas of Lebanon occupied after ceasefire apnews.com/article/leba...

Israeli airstrike kills Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil Rescue workers were fired on by Israeli forces so they were forced to halt attempts to reach Khalil, Lebanon's health ministry said Khalil’s body was retrieved at least six hours after the strike apnews.com/article/leba...

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah will not abide by any agreements that may result from the direct Lebanon-Israel talks in the United States, negotiations it firmly opposes, senior Hezbollah official Wafiq Safa told @apnews.com a day before the talks apnews.com/article/hezb...

It was not the homecoming they had anticipated when they fled to Lebanon six years ago: A Syrian man buries his wife and 4 children killed in Israeli strikes on Beirut Via Ghaith AlSayed and @joudsally.bsky.social apnews.com/article/leba...

One of the strikes hit the building where I used to live, and another one hit one block over from my current apartment. Both in very normal residential neighborhoods. Israel strikes central Beirut without warning after saying Iran ceasefire doesn't apply there: apnews.com/article/isra...

Kidnapped American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who had been held by the Kataib Hezbollah militias, has been released, an Iraqi official tells the AP Via Qassim Abdul-Zahra apnews.com/article/jour...

The AP @apnews.com is now calling Israel’s military actions in southern Lebanon an invasion. Here's why we made that decision: apnews.com/article/iran...

Lebanese fear another occupation as Israel threatens to use Gaza tactics in the south By @chehayebk.bsky.social and Julia Frankel, who have also mapped developments in the war in southern Lebanon with our graphics team apnews.com/article/leba...

Israeli strike destroys a key bridge on the route between the coastal cities of Saida (Sidon) and Sour (Tyre) in southern Lebanon, part of a stepped-up campaign targeting infrastructure and transportation routes youtube.com/watch?v=AvHT...

Israel hopes that this round will finally enable it to defang the threat on its northern border. Hezbollah sees it as an existential struggle. Whatever the outcome, the war will have far-reaching consequences in Lebanon and throughout the region.

What to know about the resurgent war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon apnews.com/article/leba...

Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan tells the AP his country will not be provoked into joining the war in the Middle East.

AP Exclusive: Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan talks diplomatic efforts as regional war rages Fidan told us that there is no serious initiative to resume negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, but he believes Iran is open to back-channel talks: apnews.com/article/turk...

War has already displaced nearly a million Lebanese, and aid groups warn of a humanitarian crisis Via @chehayebk.bsky.social and Malak Harb apnews.com/article/leba...

Photos of a central Beirut district struck by Israeli bombs apnews.com/photo-galler...