Jun 08 Watch In Syrian Town, NPR Reporter Sees Blood-Soaked Carpets Friday morning brought a new barrage of shelling in the Syrian city of Homs. Also, U.N. monitors saw evidence of multiple killings in a small town where activists reported a massacre. They said they found flesh, blood and piles of… Continue watching
Jun 07 Watch Is Annan’s Peace Plan for Syria at a Dead End? "Syria cannot be peaceful, stable or certainly democratic until [President] Assad goes," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday, calling the latest near massacre "unconscionable." Ray Suarez and The Washington Post's Colum Lynch discuss the latest diplomatic maneuvering over… Continue watching
Jun 07 Watch In Syria, U.N. Observers Fired on Near Site of Alleged New Massacre U.N. observers in Syria said Thursday that they were blocked from accessing the scene of another alleged mass killing -- and even fired upon. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned the threat of civil war there is "imminent and real." Ray… Continue watching
Jun 06 On Location in Syria: Why U.N. Ceasefire Isn’t Working By Larisa Epatko In Syria, a rebel uprising against President Bashar al-Assad and the regime's crackdown continue to spill blood on both sides despite international envoy Kofi Annan's U.N.-backed proposed ceasefire. Continue reading
May 29 Watch Canadian Ambassador: Syrian Massacre Is Another ‘Horrific Incident’ Canadian Ambassador: Syrian Massacre Is Another 'Horrific Incident'… Continue watching
May 28 Watch Were War Crimes Committed in Syria’s Houla? United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan arrived in Syria's capital Damascus Monday, condemning a weekend massacre that killed at least 108 people in the village of Houla. Ray Suarez and Alex Thomson of Independent Television News, reporting from Homs, discuss… Continue watching
May 28 Syria Massacre: Violence Spills Into Neighboring Lebanon By Larisa Epatko A massacre of more than 100 people in Houla, Syria, over the weekend is causing violence to spike in Lebanon, where Time magazine's Rania Abouzeid is reporting. She described this and other fallout from the fighting to Ray Suarez on… Continue reading
May 28 Watch Syria’s U.N. Cease-fire in Shreds After Weekend Massacre In the aftermath of a weekend massacre in Syria, United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan arrived Monday in Damascus, condemning the "appalling crime." Heavy artillery and tank fire killed at least 108 in Houla, a collection of villages northwest of… Continue watching
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