Amnesty International researchers spent months in Raqqa, collecting data and testimony from survivors. NPR's Ruth Sherlock spent time on the ground with Amnesty and with groups searching for bodies in the rubble of the devastated city.
Date: Apr 26, 2019
Category: World
Source: Google
Chemical Weapons Inspectors Finish Their Trip To Syria's Douma
Doctors in Syria and local activists described to NPR what they witnessed the day of the suspected attack. "I saw the victims, and I saw them foaming at the mouth," a Syrian photographer told NPR's Ruth Sherlock.
Date: May 04, 2018
Category: World
Source: Google
Pro-Regime Syrian Forces Take Control Of At Least Two Villages Near Iraq Border
As NPR's Ruth Sherlock has reported, the area is economically important whoever controls it "will have a greater say in the post-ISIS carve-up of Syria. It is an important bargaining chip at the negotiating table with the many different players of the country's civil war."
Date: Apr 29, 2018
Category: World
Source: Google
Russia Threatens To Shoot Down US Missiles, Target Launch Sites In Any Syria Strike
In the alleged poison gas attack in Douma on Saturday, pro-opposition rescue workers and doctors tell NPR's Ruth Sherlock that 42 people were killed the same number as reported by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Date: Apr 11, 2018
Category: World
Source: Google
Civilians Still Trapped In Eastern Ghouta, As Fighting Disrupts Aid Delivery
Ramesh Rajasingham, the UN's deputy coordinator for the humanitarian crisis in Syria, tells NPR's Ruth Sherlock the situation in Syria as a whole is "a disaster in every single aspect," and that the siege of eastern Ghouta is "probably one of the worst crises that I have seen."
Date: Mar 06, 2018
Category: World
Source: Google
Yemeni Ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh Apparently Killed In Houthi Attack
NPR's Ruth Sherlock describes the images apparently recorded in the attack's aftermath: "A video shows the body of a man who resembles Ali Abdallah Saleh being lifted onto a pickup truck. The back of his skull is crushed, and there's blood on his shirt."
Date: Dec 04, 2017
Category: World
Source: Google
ISIS Makes Last Stand At A Stadium In Raqqa, Its Doomed 'Capital'
Celebrations began to break out among the SDF in Raqqa on Tuesday, as the end of the four-month offensive seemed near. But a spokesman with the force tells NPR's Ruth Sherlock that fighting could continue as ISIS fighters hold out in booby-trapped buildings.
Date: Oct 17, 2017
Category: Top Stories
Source: Google
Syrian Regime Races Against US-Backed Rebel Forces To Take ISIS Enclave
Syria. That's leading to a race between the forces taking that territory, forces backed by the U.S. and forces backed by the Syrian government. Whoever wins the strategic province of Deir ez-Zor will get a wealth of resources but will risk being locked into a longer war. NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports.