Aug 15 Watch 11:41 Repeatedly targeted by airstrikes, Syrian doctors feel abandoned By Marcia Biggs In Syria’s ongoing war, doctors are under attack in the very places they expect to be safe: their hospitals. Last week, pro-government forces bombed a maternity hospital in the northwestern city of Idlib -- just one of the more than… Continue watching
Jun 17 Watch 5:04 State Department officials push for military intervention in Syria By PBS News Hour The question of how to end the devastating five-year Syrian Civil War has split the United States foreign service. Recently, a group of State Department officials signed an internal memo protesting U.S. policy in Syria and calling for military intervention… Continue watching
May 17 Watch 2:54 ISIS bomb attacks in Baghdad a new challenge for Iraq’s military By PBS News Hour Islamic State fighters unleashed a new wave of bombings Tuesday in Baghdad, attacks that have turned the Iraqi capital into a killing field. The casualties -- at least 200 civilians dead in the last week alone -- have put a… Continue watching
May 03 Watch How Syrians are coping with the daily adversity of war By PBS News Hour The five-year civil war in Syria has torn the nation apart. Some parts, like the capital of Damascus, have survived relatively unscathed, while others, like Aleppo, have been decimated by bullets and bombs. But for Syrians everywhere, life must go… Continue watching
Apr 28 Watch 3:10 After attack on Aleppo hospital, Syria cease-fire ‘alive, but barely’ By PBS News Hour An airstrike smashed a hospital supported by the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders overnight in Aleppo, Syria, killing dozens including one of the region's last pediatricians. Other attacks followed, punctuating the collapse of a cease-fire in the country's largest… Continue watching
Apr 28 Airstrike destroys hospital in Syria as cease-fire falters By Larisa Epatko Airstrikes in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo destroyed a hospital Wednesday night, killing at least 27 people including 14 patients and staff. Continue reading
Feb 15 Watch 4:36 Why are Syrian attacks targeting hospitals and schools? By PBS News Hour Deadly attacks blasted hospitals and schools across Northern Syria, killing nearly 50 civilians, many of them children. Activists blamed Russian airstrikes, despite plans for a temporary cease-fire. The White House condemned the violence and the Turkish foreign minister called it… Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch 4:57 300,000 could be trapped as Syrian forces encircle Aleppo, says U.N. By PBS News Hour As Syrian government forces close in on Aleppo, U.N. officials warn that 300,000 people might become trapped in the remains of Syria’s largest city, while tens of thousands of refugees try to flee towards the Turkish border. Russian airstrikes, bolstering… Continue watching
Feb 04 Watch 3:58 Syrian forces barrage the opposition as peace talks pause By PBS News Hour Just a day after peace talks stalled in Geneva, heavy new attacks against the Syrian opposition by government forces -- supported by Russian airstrikes -- came under scrutiny for undermining the diplomatic effort. An expected advance by the government on… Continue watching
Nov 23 Watch 8:02 What should we be doing to defeat the Islamic State? By PBS News Hour Militarily and diplomatically, what can the U.S. and others do to stop the Islamic State? Gwen Ifill gets views from James Jeffrey of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago. Continue watching