World Sep 10 Family of fallen Marine speaks candidly about their son, Afghanistan and 2024 politics Thirteen American military service personnel were posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. The service members were killed in a suicide bombing at Kabul's airport during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Lisa Desjardins discussed…
World Sep 06 Teachers struggle to educate Gaza’s children with many schools reduced to rubble It’s back-to-school season, but in Gaza, 625,000 students have no building to return to. Most of Gaza’s 560 schools have been either damaged or destroyed. More than half of the schools have been directly hit by Israel and the few…
World Aug 30 Gaza’s first polio case in 25 years highlights total collapse of its health infrastructure The World Health Organization, working with other UN agencies and the Palestinian Ministry of Health, will begin vaccinating children in Gaza against polio. Israel and Hamas have agreed to have three-day pauses in fighting so health workers can distribute the…
World Aug 30 Women in Afghanistan describe Taliban’s brutal repression, 3 years after U.S. withdrawal This week marks three years since the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO allies from Afghanistan. It also marks three years of intensifying repression of women under the Taliban regime in what the UN has described as a "striking erasure…
World Aug 30 Activists secretly educating Afghan children amid Taliban crackdown To discuss how the Taliban regime has impacted education, Amna Nawaz spoke with Afghan education activist Pashtana Durrani. She is the founder of Learn Afghanistan, a grassroots group working to expand education access there. Durrani is currently a visiting fellow…
Nation Aug 27 Alsu Kurmasheva on adjusting to life back home after release from Russian detention A prisoner swap with Russia brought three Americans home earlier this month. Among them was Russian American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, who was sentenced to six and a half years after the Russian government accused her of "spreading falsehoods" about the…
World Aug 21 Hardliners violently expel Palestinians to expand Israeli settlements in West Bank While Gaza endures a devastating war, an increasingly brutal battle is being fought over land in another Palestinian territory: the West Bank. Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians there more frequently and ferociously than ever before and forcing them to flee…
World Aug 19 Former U.S. diplomat shares details of Russia’s ‘war against the West’ in new book Over the past decade, the U.S.-Russia relationship has deteriorated to its lowest point since the Cold War. Ambassador John Sullivan had a front-row seat to all of it and wrote about it in his new book, “Midnight in Moscow: A…
World Aug 15 U.S. official says Gaza cease-fire talks will continue, deal key to preventing wider war The Gaza war reached a staggering milestone with the Hamas-run health ministry reporting 40,000 Gazans have been killed since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7. It comes as negotiators met again in Qatar to try and find a path toward…
World Aug 15 Gazan families shattered as war’s death toll crosses 40,000 Israel blames Hamas for hiding within civilian areas and said it has killed about 17,000 Hamas fighters in Gaza. If that’s true, that still means more than 20,000 civilians have died. Nick Schifrin discusses the latest in Gaza, and Amna…