World Dec 24 Mysterious death of White Helmets co-founder spotlights toxic propaganda By Malcolm Brabant
World Jul 22 Israel evacuates Syrian volunteers stranded in frontier area The evacuation was the first such Israeli intervention in Syria's lengthy civil war, now in its eighth year. By Aron Heller, Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press
Arts Feb 23 Watch 6:37 Out of Syria’s devastation, ‘The White Helmets’ offer moments of hope The daily destruction of Syria's civil war is at once shocking and now strangely familiar. The Oscar-nominated documentary short “The White Helmets” aims to get beyond the numbness of the conflict by showing real first responders working to rescue victims… By PBS News Hour
World Aug 22 Watch 11:24 The Syrian volunteers who rush to bombed buildings to save victims Once tailors, bakers, pharmacists, some 3,000 ordinary Syrians are now the unwitting heroes of the Syrian war. Nicknamed "the White Helmets," members of the Syrian Civil Defense work under the harshest conditions to claw through the remains of buildings flattened… By Marcia Biggs
World Aug 13 Famed Syrian rescue worker dies in airstrike Khaled Omar Harah, one the longest-serving members of a rescue organization in Syria who became famous after video recorded him rescuing a 10-day-old baby, died Thursday in Aleppo. By Daniel Moritz-Rabson