Mar 23 Syrian-Americans: Assad ‘Will Not Be Stopped With Diplomacy’ By Noreen Nasir // A year after the start of the Syrian revolution, relatives and supporters of those rising against the regime are still trying to convince lawmakers and the administration to do something to help. More than 1,000 people -- mostly Syrian-Americans… Continue reading
Mar 02 Watch Homs Residents ‘Planning Their Last Minutes’ Amid ‘Systematic Slaughter’ Saying the city had been "cleansed," the Syrian government prohibited the Red Cross from delivering critical food and medical supplies Friday to the Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs. John Irvine of Independent Television News reports. Continue watching
Feb 24 Author and Activist Elie Wiesel: Syria Is ‘a Bloody Center of History’ By Pierre de Saint Phalle Tunisia's Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem prepares to address the Friends of Syria Conference in Tunis, Tunisia, on Friday. Photo by Jason Reed/AFP/Getty Images. As Western and Arab leaders met in Tunisia on Friday to discuss how to handle the Syrian… Continue reading
Feb 24 Watch In Tunisia, ‘Friends of Syria’ Call for Ceasefire, Assad to Step Down Officials from more than 60 nations met Friday, calling on Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to step down and for the government to stop killing its people. That would allow humanitarian supplies to be delivered and evacuations to begin in Homs,… Continue watching
Feb 21 What Yemen’s Presidential Vote Means for U.S. Interests, Yemeni Daily Life By P. J. Tobia A man votes in Sanaa, Yemen. Photo by Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images. Citizens of Yemen went to the polls Tuesday to mark their vote on a presidential ballot that had only one name on it, that of current Vice President Abed… Continue reading
Feb 20 Watch News Wrap: Eurozone Ministers Move Closer to Granting Greece Next Bailout In other news Monday, Eurozone finance ministers decided at a meeting in Brussels that Greece must implement more austerity measures before they approve a $171 billion bailout package to avoid defaulting on its debts. Also, U.N. inspectors began a two-day… Continue watching
Feb 10 Siege of Homs Grinds On: ‘There Is a Sniper at the End of Our Street’ By P. J. Tobia Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army continues to blast away at the city of Homs and on Thursday we spoke with someone living in the middle of the conflict. Lubna, a 27-year-old woman who wished to be identified only by… Continue reading
Feb 09 Watch Austerity Plan Might Ease Greece Out of its 2-Year Debt Crisis After weeks of negotiations, Greece's political leaders wrapped up a controversial agreement Thursday on yet another round of austerity measures. Though the deal received some praise, Germany said it fell short while workers in Greece took to the streets to… Continue watching
Feb 08 Inside Homs, ‘The Blood Is on the Floor’ By P. J. Tobia Reports from the besieged Syrian city of Homs paint a dire picture. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that dozens have died there in the last 24 hours, 14 of them children. The assault by Syrian government forces came… Continue reading
Feb 07 Watch After Russia’s Veto at U.N., Foreign Minister Gets Hero’s Welcome in Syria Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov visited Tuesday with top Syrian leaders in Damascus as the Assad regime's crackdown on opposition intensified. Jonathan Miller of Independent Television News reports. Continue watching