World Dec 16 City that fostered Syria’s uprising celebrates life without Assad In 2011, as the Arab Spring took hold across the Middle East, the seeds of Syria's revolution were sown by students and young people in the city of Daraa. Special correspondent Simona Foltyn reports on how the city that fostered…
World Dec 14 Search continues for missing Syrians imprisoned by Assad regime Under the Assad regime, hundreds of thousands of Syrians were swept up by the government’s security apparatus, never to be seen again. Special correspondent Simona Foltyn gained access to one of the intelligence branches that orchestrated that brutal oppression and…
World Dec 12 Daily life in Syria begins to return as new leaders work on building a functioning nation Days after Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow, Syria's capital appears to be functioning. Streets are getting busier by the day and shops and government institutions are slowly returning to work. Apart from the joy and relief, the mundane but vital work of…
World Dec 10 Syria’s new leaders work to keep rebel factions united after overthrow of common enemy After 14 years of war, Syria is seeking stability. The country's caretaker prime minister, appointed by the fighters who overthrew Bashar al-Assad, said the government transition process is expected to last until March. Special correspondent Simona Foltyn reports from Damascus.
World Aug 09 Inside the southern Lebanon border area laid to waste as Israel, Hezbollah trade fire The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah began the day after the Oct. 7 attacks with the militants striking Israel's north with rockets and artillery. We've shown you over the last months the toll on Israelis, in lives and lives interrupted…
World Aug 05 Inside a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon where Hamas is gaining popularity amid war The killing of a top Hamas leader shook a Middle East already ten months into a brutal war. It has also galvanized Palestinian populations beyond Gaza and the West Bank, especially in Lebanon, long home to both political and armed…
World Jul 31 Hezbollah legislator accuses Netanyahu of trying to ‘drag the Americans’ into Mideast war The Israeli airstrike on a senior Hezbollah leader came after ten months of low-level conflict between the militants and Israel. For insights into Hezbollah's military and political influence, Special Correspondent Simona Foltyn traveled to its southern Beirut stronghold, beginning at…
World Feb 07 Militia hit by U.S. airstrikes in Iraq claims no connection to attacks on American troops A U.S. airstrike in Baghdad Wednesday killed a leader of a group that has struck American forces for years. But another group bore most of the dead and casualties from last week's strikes and claims no connection to the attacks…
World Dec 21 Israel and Hezbollah trade fire in escalating conflict, raising fears of regional war Hezbollah and Israel have been trading fire in a limited but slowly escalating conflict. So far, the skirmishes have killed nine Israeli soldiers, four civilians and more than 100 Lebanese, most of them Hezbollah fighters. Israeli officials have said they…
World Nov 14 Abbas Ibrahim discusses Israel-Hamas war and Hezbollah’s looming threat Much of the focus of this latest Israel-Hamas war is focused on Gaza and the brutal fighting there. But a larger, more threatening force in Hezbollah sits across Israel's northern border. Special correspondent Simona Foltyn recently sat down with a…