Jun 07 Watch U.S. policy in Syria focuses on humanitarian crisis By PBS News Hour Presidential elections were held in Syria on Tuesday, with President Bashar al-Assad taking nearly 90 percent of the vote. Is the U.S. 'behind the curve' in its handling of the conflict? Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Liz Sly, the Beirut bureau… Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch As refugee crises escalate, UN commissioner calls for ‘massive international solidarity’ By PBS News Hour War has upended the lives of millions in Syria and a never-ending humanitarian crisis. Aid groups attempt to meet basic needs of refugees and internally displaced Syrians but face a massive shortfall in finances. Judy Woodruff talks to U.N. High… Continue watching
Apr 10 Gordon Brown plans to send 400,000 Syrian refugee children back to school By Kyla Calvert Mason PBS NewsHour Co-Anchor Judy Woodruff and Former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown discuss an effort to educate Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon. Continue reading
Apr 10 Watch Gordon Brown talks guaranteeing education for refugee children By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 02 Watch Multiple crises emerge from conflict in the Central African Republic By PBS News Hour More than 800,000 people have been displaced in the Central African Republic in the past year, caught in the crossfire between warring groups. Gwen Ifill talks to Mark Yarnell of Refugees International about the multiple layers of the human rights… Continue watching
Mar 10 Amnesty International: Syrian government ‘using starvation as weapon of war’ By Sarah Sheffer Residents of the Yarmouk refugee camp just south of Damascus are starving, and many are resorting to eating cats and dogs and foraging for weeds, as the Syrian civil war enters its fourth year, a new Amnesty International report… Continue reading
Feb 27 Watch UN aid workers encounter grave desperation in Palestinian refugee camp cut off by Syria’s war By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 20 Photo: Syrian refugees wait for food in northern Iraq A boy waits in a queue to receive aid food at the Quru Gusik (Kawergosk) refugee camp by SAFIN HAMED #AFP #Syria pic.twitter.com/9kGiULwi1w— Stephanie Beauge (@sbeaugeAFP) December 20, 2013 Tens of thousands of… Continue reading
Sep 09 Watch How Do Syrian Americans Feel About the Crisis? How Do Syrian Americans Feel About the Crisis?… Continue watching
Sep 07 Watch At Home in Zaatari: Life in a Syrian Refugee Camp Kristen Gillespie reports on life in the Zaatari refugee camp, located about 10 miles across the border from Syria in northern Jordan. The camp opened just last year, but as the civil war in Syria has escalated, Zaatari's population has… Continue watching