World Sep 02 Inside Afghanistan's secret schools where women defy the Taliban to educate girls It’s been nearly five years since the Taliban banned education for girls older than 12 in Afghanistan. Every day seems to bring a new law limiting them, but Afghan women are pushing back. Special correspondent Leila Molana-Allen and videographer Eric…
Health Aug 25 A look at the devastating impact of USAID cuts in rural Afghanistan It's been 18 months since the Trump administration made cuts to foreign aid. One of the countries hardest-hit is Afghanistan. The five years since the U.S. withdrawal have been grim for the people there, and Refugees International attributes over 160…
World Aug 20 5 years after the U.S. left, Afghan allies reflect on life under Taliban rule We're beginning a series of stories on Afghanistan 25 years after the Sept. 11 attacks and the start of the American war there. In our first report, we have a look at the lives of three people and their families…
World Mar 10 Afghans stranded for a year by Trump's refugee freeze now caught in new war President Trump’s decision to freeze refugee processing left thousands in limbo. For more than a year, 1,100 Afghan refugees who thought they were bound for the United States have been stranded on a disused military base in Qatar. Now, having…
World Dec 18 Amid new freedoms, Syrians face horrors at site of Assad's 2013 chemical weapons attack Syrians are celebrating their hard-won freedoms throughout the nation, but that joy is tempered by the absence of so many imprisoned and never heard from again. In some ways, Syria is a land of ghosts, and the job of speaking…
World Dec 17 Displaced Syrians return to face daunting task of rebuilding homes and families In Syria, people are returning home after years of a civil war that displaced millions and left the country divided and destroyed. Assad regime checkpoints that severed any chance of seeing loved ones are now gone like the government. Special…
World Dec 12 Freed Syrian prisoners describe the horrors they faced under Assad The Assad legacy is one of horror with hundreds of thousands dead and millions displaced or in exile. Perhaps nothing illustrates the depths of the depravity more than the archipelago of prisons and torture centers where tens of thousands were…
World Nov 22 Boys forced into gangs, girls face sexual abuse as Haiti violence robs childhoods Gang warfare in Haiti has displaced about 700,000 people, more than half of them are children. The fighting has sent poverty and hunger skyrocketing and children are caught between the gangs and their tenuous futures. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs and…
World Nov 20 An inside look at how gang warfare in Haiti has devastated daily life Despite a UN-approved security mission that deployed in June to try and restore some order, large swaths of the country remain under gang control and violence is endemic. Special Correspondent Marcia Biggs and videographer Eric O'Connor traveled there for a…
World Dec 13 How drone warfare has transformed the battle between Ukraine and Russia With Congress deadlocked on whether to approve tens of billions of dollars in additional aid for Ukraine, that nation's domestic arms industry is becoming increasingly important. Perhaps the most vital weapons system it's producing is an army of drones. Nick…