About Ali
Ali Rogin is a foreign affairs producer at the PBS NewsHour.
Ali’s Recent Stories
World Oct 20
Idlib, Syria’s final rebel stronghold, struggles to get lifesaving aid amid COVID spikeGovernment shelling killed a dozen people in Syria’s northwest Idlib province Wednesday. Idlib is the final stronghold for rebels still fighting the Assad regime. But the province is also under attack from a different threat — its most severe wave…
World Oct 19
Many Jews fleeing Nazi rule spent years hiding in forests. A new book tells their storiesDuring the early Nazi occupation of Europe, they forced more than a million Jews to live and work in ghettos. Most were killed in a brutal process called liquidation, or sent to concentration camps. Some 25,000 Jews escaped the ghettos…
World Oct 07
American diplomats not getting fully paid because of IT problemFor almost a year, many State Department employees, including those serving in some of the world’s most dangerous posts, have been receiving incomplete or inaccurate paychecks because of problems with a new payroll processing system. “We’ve been so stressed,” said…
World Sep 30
Mozambicans fleeing IS-affiliated insurgents feel failed by government, exploited by big businessThe Southeast African nation of Mozambique is being terrorized by "Al Shabaab," an ISIS-affiliated insurgency that has killed 3,000 people and displaced many more. With the support of the Pulitzer Center, special correspondent Neha Wadekar and filmmaker Ed Ram report…
Science Sep 23
U.S. and E.U. climate envoys on how China, developing nations can help combat crisisThe U.N. warns that unless the world acts faster than promised, Earth's temperatures will rise to catastrophic, irreversible levels. The U.S. calls the upcoming climate summit the last chance for the world to avoid disaster. Nick Schifrin discusses the crisis…
World Sep 09
Many Afghans haven’t eaten in weeks as Taliban rule triggers humanitarian crisisAn international commercial flight took off from the Kabul airport Thursday for the first since the Taliban seized the country. On the evacuation flight were 200 foreigners, among them Americans. But they leave behind a country in a humanitarian crisis.
Nation Sep 07
Middletown lost the most residents on 9/11 after NYC. Here’s how the community is healingAli Rogin returns to Middletown, a New Jersey town where she grew up that was disproportionately affected by the 9/11 attacks in 2001, to see how residents and neighbors coped over the past two decades.
World Sep 06
Taliban gain control of Panjshir Valley but are yet to form an official governmentA senior State Department official confirmed the United States evacuated four Americans from Afghanistan and relocated them to a nearby country in the first known U.S. overland extraction since the August 31 withdrawal deadline. As Ali Rogin reports, that comes…
World Aug 24
10 days after devastating Haiti earthquake, many survivors finally get medical attentionIn Haiti, the death toll from this month’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake continues to rise. More than 2,200 people are confirmed dead, with 344 still missing. John Yang reports on how the earthquake has led to a new set of challenges…
World Aug 23
U.S. has no clear bureaucratic plan for Afghan evacueesFor those Afghans who braved the Taliban’s violence and desperate crowds to get to the Kabul airport, their challenges do not end when they arrive. The process for getting Afghans to the United States is full of logistical and bureaucratic…