Mar 28 Watch In visit to Saudi Arabia, Obama seeks to heal U.S. rift with key partner By PBS News Hour It's a tense time for U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia. President Obama visited the desert nation and met with King Abdullah in hopes of reassuring Saudi concerns about the Syrian war, among other things. Jeffrey Brown looks back at recent… Continue watching
Mar 18 Watch News Wrap: Relatives of missing Flight 370 passengers threaten hunger strike for answers By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 13 Aid groups pin hopes on U.N. resolution allowing access in Syria By Larisa Epatko Of the dozens of Syrian refugees that human rights advocate Sahr Muhammedally met last spring, one woman stood out. Continue reading
Mar 12 Trendlines: What does the Ukraine crisis mean for the Middle East? By Larisa Epatko Rapid developments in Ukraine have focused international attention on the region and, some fear, away from pressing matters in the Middle East. We explored the potential fallout of the Ukraine crisis in the web special Trendlines. Continue reading
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
Mar 04 Syria speeds up chemical weapon removal to meet June deadline By News Desk The Syrian government is recovering from delays in reliquishing its chemical weapons and can still meet the deadline for their entire removal, an official said on Tuesday. Sigrid Kaag, who heads the joint Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical… Continue reading
Feb 27 Watch Humanitarian aid groups prepare for long-term crisis in Syria By PBS News Hour Judy Woodruff talks to Nancy Lindborg of the U.S. Agency for International Development and Michael Gerson of The Washington Post about the devastating conditions for Syrian civilians and refugees, the barriers preventing aid organizations from reaching people in need and… Continue watching
Feb 27 Watch Thursday, February 27, 2014 By PBS News Hour On our program Thursday, pro-Russian protesters seized the Crimean parliament, once Ukraine voted in a new prime minister. Also: We look at a refugee camp in Syria struggling to receive humanitarian aid, President Barack Obama’s new initiative for young men… Continue watching
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