BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon – They are two faces of what many here fear is a “lost generation” of...
Mar 14, 2016
‘Death waves us good morning through the windows’: Covering Syria five years on
Asma al-Assad’s right hand was soft and sweaty when I shook it five years ago. “It has been...
Mar 14, 2016
The Syrian Refugee Crisis: How Did We Get Here?
By Charles M. Sennott and Kevin Douglas Grant It was five years ago this month that the war...
Mar 10, 2016
Meet Zakia and Ali, Afghanistan’s Romeo and Juliet
They are human beings, and as poor and unlucky and ill-educated as they might be, they have just...
Feb 12, 2016
Syrian Refugees of Jordan’s and Lebanon’s Camps
Jordan Ahamd Caher, 15, a Syrian refugee from Golan Heights, sits on a bed in his family’s caravan...
Feb 05, 2016
Refugee crisis in Jordan reaches a ‘boiling point’
AMMAN, Jordan — The refugee camps layered across the hillsides here look like an archaeological excavation, revealing the sediment...
Feb 02, 2016
The Fifth Anniversary of Egypt’s Uprising
CAIRO – The uprising that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak in 2011 radically shifted the tides of politics in...
Jan 28, 2016
Reporter’s Notebook: Tahrir Square, Five Years Later
CAIRO – Where Egyptian demonstrators locked arms five years ago in the iconic protests of Tahrir Square, there was...
Jan 25, 2016
Five Years Later: Egypt’s Revolution Devours Its Children
CAIRO—It takes about 30 minutes to drive from the teeming Cairo neighborhood of Faisal to what locals call...
Jan 24, 2016
To Jordan’s Bedouins, MERS is ‘only a story’
On the first day of a three-day summer reporting trip in Jordan’s southern Wadi Rum desert, Bedouin herder...
Jan 13, 2016