Al-Qaida Takes To The Hills Of Yemen's Badlands
Yemen's offensive against al-Qaida has focused on territory in the south of the country that the militants have held for nearly a year. With the backing of the U.S., Yemen's army has cleared al-Qaida...
View ArticleAs 'Hungry Season' Nears, Yemenis Struggle For Food
Yemen has long struggled as one of the least developed countries in the world. But now, after a year of protest and unrest that saw the country's longtime dictator step down, the situation for millions...
View ArticleYemen Airstrikes Punish Militants ... And Civilians
The destruction is total. In Jaar, a town in southern Yemen, an entire block has been reduced to rubble by what residents say was a powerful airstrike on May 15. For the first time in more than a year,...
View ArticleBorder Battles A Cat-And-Mouse Game In Syria
Second of five partsI'm standing next to a ridge, looking at the Syrian town of Salaqin. Just up on the ridge you can see the silhouettes of a mosque and couple of water towers. It looks like a very...
View ArticleSyrian Refugees Move Into Lebanon's Crowded Camps
The conflict in Syria is sending a staggering number of refugees into neighboring countries. Turkey, Jordan and even Iraq are building tent cities. But Lebanon has yet to build such camps. The country...
View ArticleSyrian Activists Protest, But Not Over Anti-Islam Video
For the past year and a half, every Friday in Syria has been given a name. That's because every Friday, people protest against the government, and those protests get a title. This week's title? "Syrian...
View ArticleAs Numbers Swell, Syrian Refugees Face New Woes
Syria's refugees keep growing dramatically in number, and no country in the region has taken in more of them than Jordan — a poor, desert nation that is now hosting some 200,000 Syrians. The conditions...
View ArticleSyrian Rebels Secure Another Crossing With Turkey
Rebels trying to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad are making slow but steady gains in securing an incrementally larger safe zone in the north. They've captured a third major border crossing between...
View ArticleSyria Experiences More Bloody Weekend Fighting
In the country's largest city Aleppo, large swaths of a historic market were burned to the ground as government troops battled rebels for control of the city. And a bomb struck a largely Kurdish city...
View ArticleTurkey Pushes Syrians Into Limbo Across Border
Long before the Syrian uprising, Antakya, Turkey, was a storied place. Once known as Antioch, the city was home to Greeks, some of the earliest Christians, Jews and Armenians. It once was a major stop...
View ArticleVideo From Syria Alerts Activist To His Father's Death
The numbers coming out of Syria these days are staggering: hundreds of thousands of refugees, tens of thousands dead. The struggle, and the death, is being captured regularly on social media. The...
View ArticleU.N. Envoy To Syria Heads To Damascus To Discuss Cease-Fire
The United Nations' special envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, is on his way to Syria's capital, Damascus, where he will hold talks with Syrian leaders about a proposal to call a cease-fire between...
View ArticleLife And Death And Puppets In Syria
"I'm not crazy," the figure says, standing alone in a dark room, as if trying to convince himself. "I'm not crazy?" almost a question this time. "I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy!" he yells,...
View ArticleLittle Festivity As Syria's Holiday Cease-Fire Fails
Eid al-Adha is one of the holiest days on the Muslim calendar. The day marks the end of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. It's the feast of the sacrifice, when any Muslim who is able should sacrifice an...
View ArticleIn Syria's Biggest City, A Deadly Stalemate
Before the Syrian uprising, Aleppo was many things: Syria's largest city, its economic hub and cultural capital, one of the oldest, continuously occupied cities in the world. Now, Aleppo has a more...
View ArticleConflicts Brew Between Kurds, Arabs In Iraq
Arab-Kurd skirmishes in southern Iraq late last week injured dozens of people and killed at least one. Now troops from both sides are escalating and tensions are high again. This all comes as Kurdistan...
View ArticleSources: U.S., Jordan Training Syrian Rebels On Anti-Aircraft Weapons
The U.S. has now formally recognized a new Syrian opposition group as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people. But the U.S. has repeatedly declined to provide weapons for rebels fighting...
View ArticleAs Syrian War Grinds On, A Rebel Keeps Reinventing Himself
Ibrahim Abazid had no idea he would be part of a nationwide revolt in Syria — or that his role would keep evolving.It was March 2011. Some teenagers in his hometown, Dera'a, got arrested for spray...
View ArticleA Welcoming Way Station For Syrians Fleeing Home
It's called Beit Qamishlo, or the House of Qamishlo. It's named after a city in northeastern Syria, though the house isn't even in Syria — it's just across the border in southern Turkey.The house is...
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