Conflict & Justice
PRI's The World
October 21, 2015
The embattled Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, appeared in Moscow on Tuesday night, for his first trip outside of his country since the uprising against him began in 2011. It’s a sign of his dependence on Russian military assistance. And it seems Vladimir Putin summoned Assad to get a sense of how flexible he is on his role in any political settlement or transition in Syria. Syria's secular elite shares a deep comfort level with the arrival of Russian forces.
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Syrian activists operate secret hospitals to treat wounded dissidents
PRI's The World
October 26, 2011
After a violent crackdown against Arab Spring protesters in Syria, the government is using its hospitals to find and isolate dissidents. To get the treatment they need, they're having to go to independent, underground, make-shift hospitals.
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Health & Medicine
Historical photos circulating depict women medical pioneers
PRI's The World
July 15, 2013
A photo of three pioneering women doctors has been circulating in social media -- but they're not wearing white lab coats. They're wearing culturally significant dress and they represent the first women doctors from their countries, back in the 1800s.
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Conflict & Justice
'They told me they were going to melt me in acid if I continue the work I was doing'
PRI's The World
January 16, 2015
Lubna Shaheen was born in Homs, Syria. Soon after the revolution took off, she began volunteering as a humanitarian worker. The Syrian regime, however, wasn't happy about her work.
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Conflict & Justice
A British author fights to hang onto her home in Damascus
PRI's The World
December 22, 2014
Like many homeowners, Diana Darke simply fell in love with her house and couldn't pass it up. But the British author's dream home was in Damascus, now caught in the Syrian civil war. Yet Darke refuses to give up on her house — or Syria itself.
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Conflict & Justice
#20: @realDonaldTrump Do you support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remaining in power? #100Days100Qs
February 11, 2017
President Donald Trump has been very clear about his plans for ISIS. He's going to "destroy" the group. But it's less clear what Trump wants to see happen in ISIS' home base: Syria.
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Conflict & Justice
Yarmouk is a man-made disaster zone, right inside the Syrian capital of Damascus
PRI's The World
February 26, 2014
It's difficult not to be moved by some of the images coming out this week of one particular district in Damascus. In Yarmouk, a sea of grim faces stare out from two rows of bombed out buildings. This section of the Syrian capital, after being under siege for months, has become a man-made disaster zone.
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Health & Medicine
Polio adds one more heartbreak to a Syria wracked by war
PRI's The World
November 06, 2013
Syria thought it had eradicated polio from its borders. But with its health care system crumbling under the strain of war, the country faces a new outbreak.
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Arts, Culture & Media
A Syrian family in New Jersey create art and music that they couldn't back home
PRI's The World
June 21, 2016
President Obama is falling short on his pledge to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of September. But some Syrians have already been granted visas and are living here, not as refugees, but as visiting professors.
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Conflict & Justice
Fighting continues to shake Aleppo as the UN envoy pushes truce efforts
Agence France-Presse
November 20, 2016
Fresh fighting shook Syria's Aleppo on Sunday with a rebel attack killing at least eight children at a school, as the UN's envoy struggled to push peace efforts in Damascus.
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Conflict & Justice
Interview: Syria's Assad says US ‘fabricated’ chemical attack to justify strikes
Agence France-Presse
April 13, 2017
In an exclusive interview with AFP in Damascus — his first since the alleged April 4 attack prompted a US airstrike on Syrian forces — Bashar al-Assad said his army had given up all its chemical weapons and that Syrian military power was not affected by the US strike.