In May 2015, "NOW News", a defunct Lebanon-based news website, published a trove of leaked emails from the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad. The leaked emails revealed that she had contacted and sought to protect George Chaoui, an EU sanctioned Christian Syrian citizen, and alleged member of the Syrian Electronic Army. Additional emails have noted that she is seen as one of a handful of "favorable" journalists to the government; due to her contacts with Syrian officials, and having interviewed President Assad twice during the course of the Syrian Civil War.