Silencing the Messenger in Syria
Rami al Sayed, a citizen journalist in Homs who had been live streaming attacks on the city using his cell phone, was killed this week. Hours later, two foreign journalists, Marie Colvin and Remi...
View ArticleAl-Arabiya Defends its Syria Coverage
Bob speaks with Mazen Hayek, a spokesman from the Arabic-language news channel Al Arabiya, who responds to Sultan Al-Qassemi's critique. Hayek says the network has a history of covering conflicts...
View ArticleIn Brooklyn Enclaves And Beyond, Syrians Overcome Fear to Voice Opposition to...
At a hookah cafe in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, between puffs of flavored tobacco, Hassan, who is Syrian, watches a soccer game on his cell phone. He nervously wraps a rubber band around his finger. The...
View ArticleSyria Grows More Dangerous for Civilians and Foreign Journalists
Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer for TheNew Yorker, just returned from reporting from the front lines in Syria. He tells us who the rebels are in Syria, and how difficult it is to report as a foreign...
View ArticleSyrian Rebels Withdraw from Homs Enclave
In Syria, Red Cross workers enter the besieged enclave of Bab Amr in the city of Homs. International Committee of the Red Cross spokesperson Carla Haddad Mardini joins The Takeaway for an update, next.
View ArticleMusic and the Syrian Uprising
As news of violence continues to pour out of Syria, we examine the role that music has played in the country’s ongoing uprising. Composer and musician Malek Jandali, who is of Syrian descent, joins us...
View ArticleStories from Syrian Refugees
Horrific stories are emerging from thousands of refugees streaming out of Syria into Lebanon. The refugees tell of summary executions and torture. The International Red Cross remains outside Baba Amr...
View ArticleSyrian Official Hussameddin Defects to the Opposition
With a video posted on YouTube Wednesday, Syrian deputy oil minister Abdo Hussameddin announced his defection from President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Hussameddin had served the Syrian government for...
View ArticleDiplomacy Stalls in Syria
As hopes for diplomacy stall once again, the killing goes on in Syria, with a report this morning of dozens dead after an attack by pro-government militia in Homs. This latest violence comes after UN...
View ArticleHuman Rights Abuses Across Syrian Borders
According to new reports from Human Rights Watch, Syria is laying landmines across its borders with Lebanon and Turkey. Steve Goose, arms division director for Human Rights Watch, called the use of...
View ArticleSyrian Opposition Leader on Country's Future, One Year after Protests Began
Today is the one-year anniversary of the protest movement in Syria. While the Arab Spring brought regime change to Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has retained his grip on...
View ArticleVideo Urges Asma al-Assad to End Syrian Violence
Coming up ... the wives of two UN ambassadors have released a video, calling on Syrian First Lady Asma al Assad to use her influence to end the fighting in Syria. Bedroom diplomacy ... next on The...
View ArticleMassacre Near Homs Puts Pressure on US Role in Syria
The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting yesterday afternoon to discuss a massacre that took place over the weekend in the Syrian town of Houla.The Syrian government insists that its tanks and...
View ArticleUncertainty Looms in Syria
In Syria, uncertainty about the future of the country looms after bomb blasts in Damascus reportedly killed at least three members of Syrian President Bashar al Assad's inner circle yesterday.From...
View ArticleSyrian Conflict Taking Heavy Toll on Children
Over the weekend, clashes continued across Syria with reports of violence reported from Aleppo to Damascus. As the conflict drags on, the toll of war has been increasingly carried by Syria’s youngest...
View ArticleSyrians in Support of President Assad
For the past 17 months, fighting in Syria has lead to an increasingly uncertain political climate, with President Bashar al-Assad's position looking all the more precarious. But following recent...
View ArticleThousands Flee Aleppo
Syrian troops and rebels are fighting a fierce battle for control of Aleppo, Syria's largest city with nearly 3 million residents. As hundreds of thousands stream out of Aleppo, the Syrian Army is...
View ArticleKofi Annan Surrenders His Fight for Peace in Syria
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan announced his resignation as the UN Special Envoy of Syria yesterday confirming the situation in Syria hopeless and the help from the Security Council limited due...
View ArticleSyria's Prime Minister Reportedly Defects to Jordan
Syria's Prime Minister, Riyadh Farid Hejab, has defected to Jordan, according to the Jordanian Government. But state-run media in Syria says he was "fired." Dale Gavlak is a reporter for our partner...
View ArticleDavid Sanger on Syria, Iran and Regional Conflict
David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times, WNYC contributor and author of Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, discusses the latest...
View ArticleFractured and Criticized Syrian Opposition Attempts to Reorganize
Syrian opposition leaders have been meeting this week to tap new leadership after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pronounced the Syrian National Council a failure last month. To win foreign...
View ArticleSyria Check-In
Just after accepting a DuPont award for her reporting on Syria, Clarissa Ward, CBS News' foreign correspondent, updates the situation there and other Middle East news.
View ArticleThe Silence and the Roar: the Syrian Uprising in a Novel
Nihad Sirees, Syrian novelist, playwright and screenwriter and now author of The Silence and The Roar, joins us to talk about his novel in the context of the Syrian uprising, and his own life in exile...
View ArticleFleeing Syria: Caught Between the Immigration System and Reuniting a Family
It’s been two years since the uprising in Syria began. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have fled the country. One woman finds herself back in New York, caught at the intersection between the U.S....
View ArticleFrontline's “Syria Behind the Lines”
Olly Lambert, writer/director/producer, discusses his Frontline documentary “Syria Behind the Lines.” Lambert is the first Western filmmaker to spend an extended period living on both sides of Syria's...
View ArticleBoston Bombing Aftermath, Israel and Terrorism, and US Aid to Syria
David Sanger, Chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times reports from Tel Aviv and talks with Kerry Nolan about the decision to send non-lethal aid to Syrian rebels; the aftermath of last...
View ArticleAn Inconvenient Truth: Mounting Evidence Syria Crossed 'Red Line'
There are now three nations who say they have evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime in Syria. Israel's senior military intelligence analyst said the regime used chemical weapons...
View ArticleThe Challenges of Assmilation, A Father and Daughter Talk Finances, Costs of...
The Social and Economic Costs of a Lockdown | An Inconvenient Truth: Mounting Evidence Syria Crossed "Red Line" | Small Retailers Pushback on Proposed Online Sales Tax | Immigrants Share Their...
View ArticleIsreli Intel on Syria, Boston Intel on the Bombers and Are Journalists Too...
In this week's Washington Report, Kerry Nolan talks with New York Times Chief Washington Correspondent David Sanger about chemical weapons in Syria's Civil War, whether the Boston bombing suspects had...
View ArticleChemical Weapons in Syria, How Diversity Contributes to Prosperity,...
With 70,000 Syrians Dead, Why are Chemical Weapons the Game Changer? | Chemical Weapons in Syria: Israel Responds | The Medical Ethics of Force-Feeding Guantanamo Hunger Strikers | A Royal Example |...
View ArticleImmigration Reform and American Workers, Should the U.S. Provide Weapons to...
From Technology to Agriculture, Immigration Reform and American Workers | Trespassing, Vandalism, and Peace Activism in Oak Ridge | Archaeologists Uncover Ruins of Roman London beneath Bloomberg Site...
View ArticleDoJ vs. Reporters; Khaled Hosseini; Are You Leaning In?
Details continue to emerge about the way the Justice Department is going after leakers and the reporters they work with. The New Yorker'sRyan Lizza discusses the effect on journalism. Then,...
View ArticleEuropean Union Ends Syrian Arms Embargo, Congressman Cole on Oklahoma's...
European Union Ends Arms Embargo on Syrian Rebels | Congressman Tom Cole on Oklahoma's Recovery | 54 Years Later: A High School Diploma | Women Investors Push Back on Claim that Mothers Can't be...
View ArticleEuropean Union Ends Arms Embargo on Syrian Rebels
A surprise in Syria yesterday as U.S. Republican Senator John McCain managed to go where relatively few reporters can go, into war-ravaged Syria.McCain entered the country from the border with Turkey...
View ArticleSyrian Army Retakes Golan Heights Crossing into Israel
Fighting between the Syrian government and opposition forces has made its way into the Golan heights. There are reports that Syrian government forces have taken back control of the border crossing...
View ArticleIs the U.S. Now Syria's Only Hope?
New figures from the United Nations estimate that by the end of the year, more than 10 million Syrians will need some kind of aid.That’s half the country’s population. The UN says it needs $5 billion...
View ArticleSyrian Conflict Spurs Sectarian Violence
The civil war in Syria is increasingly becoming a sectarian conflict involving Sunnis and Shiites, particularly with the recent involvement of Hezbollah. But it didn't start out that way. Journalist...
View ArticleChemical Weapons Confirmed in Syria
The United Nations now estimates that nearly 100,000 people have died in the Syrian civil war—a ten fold increase from a year ago—and the situation appears to be getting worse. Weeks ago, the White...
View ArticleWhy Are We Intervening in Syria?
The Obama administration reports that the chemical weapons "red line" in Syria has been crossed. Christiane Amanpour, chief international correspondent for CNN and global affairs anchor for ABC,...
View ArticleMonday Morning Politics: Syria Intervention, Iran Election
The US is arming rebels in the Syrian conflict -- how slippery of a slope towards war is Obama standing on? David Sanger, New York Times chief Washington correspondent and author of Confront and...
View ArticleOpposition in Syria Claim Chemical Attacks Killed Hundreds
Opposition activists in Syria have accused the Syrian government of launching chemical weapons attacks and killing hundreds in areas close to the capital of Damascus overnight.The Syrian government has...
View ArticleUS Military Intervention in Syria?
Aaron David Miller, vice president at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a former US Mideast negotiator and advisor, discusses the US's options for military intervention in Syria.
View ArticleExplainer: What's Going On In Syria
The Obama Administration is planning a military intervention in Syria. In case you just started following the story now, here's what you need to know. UPDATED with information from Obama's Saturday...
View ArticleA Case for US Intervention in Syria
Michael Weiss, columnist for NOW Lebanon and editor-in-chief of The Interpreter magazine, and Andrew Tabler, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and author of the book In the...
View ArticleWhat's Next in Syria?
Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order, talks about how the international community...
View ArticlePublic Opinion on Syria
Dante Chinni, director of the American Communities project, a collaboration including The Wall Street Journal, PBS NewsHour, and WNYC radio that studies politics, socio-economics, and culture in a time...
View ArticleHow Should Your Member of Congress Respond on Syria?
Congressmen Charles Rangel (D-NY 13th) then Scott Garrett, (R-NJ 5th), talk about President Obama's decision to ask for congressional approval in advance of a possible U.S. military response to the...
View ArticleVideo and Transcript: President Obama Address on Syria
President Obama addressed the nation Tuesday night about the United States' possible intervention in Syria. Obama asked that the Congressional vote to authorize intervention be postponed while...
View ArticleThe President's Message on Syria
Fred Kaplan, War Stories columnist for Slate, author of The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War, and Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations,...
View ArticleA History of Weapons "Red Lines"
From biological weapons to nuclear non-proliferation efforts, John Isaacs, executive director of the Arms Control Center looks at the history of weapons of mass destruction and the efforts to curb...
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