Apr 15 Little will for American involvement in Ukraine By Domenico Montanaro There is little American political will for strong U.S. intervention in Ukraine, a new poll finds. While a majority, 55 percent, say the situation in Ukraine is key to U.S. national interests, 50 percent of Americans don’t think the U.S. Continue reading
Apr 12 Syrian village reportedly hit by poison gas attack By Kayla Ruble There are reports that a gas attack hit a village in the central province of Hama on Friday, with both the Syrian government and rebel forces blaming each other for the incident. Continue reading
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 09 Car bombs in Syria kills 25, wounds 107 By Associated Press According to The Associated Press, the Syria state news agency says 2 car bombs in central city of Homs has killed 25 people and wounded 107. Continue reading
Apr 08 U.S. missile strike wouldn’t have altered course of Syrian civil war, Kerry says By Lara Jakes, Associated Press A threatened, but averted, American missile strike to punish Syria's government for a chemical weapons attack last summer would not have been powerful enough to change the course in the Syrian civil war, Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday,… Continue reading
Apr 01 Watch A look inside the city of Homs, central battlefield of Syria’s war By PBS News Hour Syria’s civil war has killed more than 140,000 people. The city of Homs, once seen as the capital of the revolution, is now mostly controlled by government forces. Attack and starvation drove scores of rebels to flee or surrender, while… Continue watching
Apr 01 Death toll in Syria’s civil war surpasses 150,000, human rights monitor says By Joshua Barajas More than 150,000 have died during Syria's ongoing civil war, a Britain-based monitor group said Tuesday. Relying on a network of sources on the ground, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 150,344 people, including 51,212 civilians, have died… Continue reading
Mar 28 Watch What’s behind the widening division between U.S. and Saudi Arabia? By PBS News Hour Saudi Arabia has warned of a “major shift” away from their long-time reliance on the U.S. amid strained relations over concerns like the war in Syria, nuclear negotiations with Iran and turmoil in Egypt. Jeffrey Brown talks to Toby Jones… Continue watching