Apr 25 Watch 8:13 How can U.S. use its forces most effectively against ISIS? By PBS News Hour President Obama approved the deployment of up to 250 additional military personnel to Syria to aid the fight against the Islamic State group, while the resumption of heavy fighting in the Syrian civil war has all but derailed UN efforts… Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch 3:38 News Wrap: David Cameron defends family’s finances By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, British Prime Minister David Cameron rejected criticism of his family's finances and offshore holdings after the Panama Papers leak detailed his late father's investments. Also, a surge in fighting focused around Aleppo threatens to derail… Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch 6:12 Gathering evidence of Syria war crimes in ‘The Assad Files’ By PBS News Hour Five years of brutal civil war in Syria have killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions more. Now, a new journalistic project aims to document President Bashar al-Assad’s principal role in the systematic campaign of detention, torture and murder that… Continue watching
Mar 23 Watch 4:40 Finding friendship in the wreckage of war and revolution By PBS News Hour After his last deployment to Afghanistan, decorated Marine veteran and writer Elliot Ackerman went to report on the civil war in Syria. What he found was friendship and a shared disillusion over the hopes of revolution. In this essay, Ackerman… Continue watching
Mar 23 Obama: U.S. will go after ISIS aggressively By Josh Lederman, Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A day after bombs ripped through Brussels, President Barack Obama declared that fighting the Islamic State is his "No. 1 priority" and pledged that the United States will pursue the jihadist group until it is destroyed. Continue reading
Mar 17 Watch 6:39 News Wrap: Paul Ryan won’t be GOP nominee; Putin makes threat on Syria By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan again denied any possibility that he would stand for the Republican presidential nomination at a contested RNC convention, saying those who argue otherwise should “knock it off.” Also, Russian president Vladimir… Continue watching
Mar 17 A major contributor to the Syrian conflict? Climate change By Vikram Mansharamani Starting in 2006, Syria suffered its worst drought in 900 years; it ruined farms, forced as many as 1.5 million rural denizens to crowd into cities alongside Iraqi refugees and decimated the country’s livestock. Water became scarce and food expensive. The suffering and… Continue reading
Mar 11 Watch 5:53 Surrounded by violence, Syrians seek solace in art By PBS News Hour As the fighting in Syria approaches a fifth year, leaving hundreds of thousands dead and displaced, the nation’s artists have sought ways to respond to the destruction of their homeland. Some try to tell the stories of their fellow Syrians,… Continue watching
Jan 01 Watch 7:26 Daily airstrikes and specter of ISIS loom over Aleppo civilians By PBS News Hour The plight of refugees fleeing the war in Syria has been well documented across the last year, but what is life like for those who stayed behind? Jeffrey Brown talks to journalist and activist Rami Jarrah about how civilians are… Continue watching
Dec 18 Watch 5:24 Assad future unclear as UN Security Council charts a course for Syria By PBS News Hour After nearly five years of brutal civil war, the United Nations Security Council voted to endorse an international framework for a peace process in Syria. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the details, what's at… Continue watching