Displacement

10 US immigration issues to watch in 2020

The World

January 03, 2020

Last year, the Trump administration rolled out several policies that restricted access to asylum, as well as employment-based and family-based immigration pathways. With a presidential election on the horizon, 2020 could bring even more restrictions. Here's what we're watching.

Conflict

Idlib in northwest Syria is under attack from Russian and Syrian jets. Here’s what one resident told us.

The World

December 25, 2019

Russian and Syrian forces have intensified aerial attacks on villages in southern Idlib, a province in northwest Syria. One local English teacher shares his experience of the attacks with The World.

Immigration

‘We always FaceTime daddy for presents': How families celebrate Christmas with their deported spouses

The World

December 23, 2019

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants are deported from the US each year, and many of them leave behind US citizen spouses and children. Here's how two families have changed their holiday traditions after the deportations of their husbands and fathers.

A high school reunion for Iranian Americans, 40 years after the revolution

The World

December 10, 2019

On the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, these former classmates said that this reunion — their first in 42 years — took them back to a time and place that felt like a world away.