World Aug 04 5 years after Beirut blast, victims struggle to rebuild lives as leaders evade blame Five years ago, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history ripped apart Beirut's waterfront with a terrifying power. The blast, which many still refer to as "the bomb," was not terrorism, nor was it war. It was caused by…
World Jan 31 Syrian revolutionary describes his vision for rebuilding after 13 years of civil war As Syria recovers from 13 years of civil war and five decades under the Assad regime, its citizens face the daunting task of rebuilding their nation. Saleh Hawa, a Syrian literature professor and revolutionary, saw his hometown bombed heavily during…
World Jan 08 Syria’s once-empowered Alawite minority faces uncertain future after fall of Assad As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia Islam, and the people of his former region…
World Dec 26 How the Assad regime made billions producing and exporting party drugs Now that the Assad regime in Syria has fallen, the full scale of that government’s production and distribution of illicit drugs is coming to light. Leila Molana-Allen reports from the drug factories in Syria.
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 16 Syria’s rebel leaders face critical decisions as they chart new path for the country For the first time since he fled the country he ruled with an iron fist and a willingness to kill his own people to hold power, Bashar al-Assad was heard from. In a statement from exile in Moscow, Assad claimed…
World Dec 15 Syrians begin piecing their lives back together a week after rebels overthrow Assad Signs of normalcy are starting to return a week after life inside Syria was upended as rebels toppled President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. As the country’s new leaders begin to chart a path forward, the UN envoy to Syria called for…
World Dec 13 Syrians express jubilation during first Friday prayers since overthrow of Assad Barely a week after Bashar al-Assad fled the country he destroyed, Syrians welcomed the first Friday prayers. There are many unanswered questions about this new Syria, but one thing is for certain, there is unfettered jubilation. Special correspondent Leila Molana-Allen…
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…