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 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…
World Dec 11 Fall of Assad sparks new hope in Syria but minority groups remain concerned The sea change toward tenuous hope in Syria over the last two weeks has been tempered with a grim accounting of the last 14 years of war and a half a century of authoritarian rule under the Assad family. Special…
World Dec 06 Romania election results thrown out after Russian interference claims Romania’s constitutional court threw out the results of the election’s first round and delayed the second round. The sitting government says there was a vast influence effort by a foreign actor to boost the candidacy of a candidate dubbed as…
World Dec 05 Syrian rebels capture city of Hama, dealing another serious blow to Assad government Rebels dealt another blow to the Syrian government by capturing a city in the center of the country. Opposition forces took control of Hama, one of the few cities that remained largely under government control since the civil war started…
World Dec 04 Is U.S. investment in Africa coming too late to counter China and Russia on the continent? President Biden is returning from the first presidential trip to Africa in more than a decade. Biden visited Angola to further U.S. investments on the continent. The Americans are playing a game of catchup with the Chinese who have spent…
World Dec 03 South Korea’s president throws nation into political chaos with martial law attempt For the first time since South Korea became a democracy some 40 years ago, a president declared martial law. But hours later, the opposition and members of his own party in parliament rejected the order. Nick Schifrin discussed what led…
World Dec 02 What’s next for the Middle East as Syria’s civil war is suddenly reignited Russian and Syrian warplanes targeted civilian areas held by opposition fighters in Syria. It comes days after rebels swept into parts of northwestern Syria that the regime had controlled for years. Nick Schifrin discussed the reignition of the civil war…
World Nov 29 Thousands protest in Georgia after government suspends EU bid The ruling party of the country of Georgia has suspended talks to join the European Union, a decision that the opposition calls the culmination of a pro-Russian effort to rig recent parliamentary elections and turn the former Soviet Republic back…