April 23, 2014

Panama President to Face Corruption Charges in Italy

Panama's President Ricardo Martinelli will be indicted and prosecuted in Italy on extortion and corruption charges as soon as he leaves office later this year in a burgeoning scandal that affects the integrity of the Panama Canal.
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February 11, 2014

Flight to Syria: Ushering Aid to a Besieged Suburb of Damascus

How help finally arrived for the people in Yarmouk, a Damascus suburb under siege by the Assad regime.
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January 12, 2014

Syrian Kurds Form Enclave to Protect Against Assad, al-Qaida

While the three-year-old civil war rages in Syria, creating one of the biggest humanitarian crises since World War II, the Kurdish people are forging their own solution to the conflict.
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December 27, 2013

Christmas in Damascus

When the singing inside subsided, the booms of the cannons at the edge of town came back. It took about 10 minutes to walk back to the car that was parked next to a military roadblock. They were checking trunks of passing cars. The news…
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