When hospitals become targets
Syria's dictator is trying to quash the remnants of rebellion by bombing hospitals. Still, brave doctors in the country, many of them American volunteers, are risking everything to save lives. Scott Pelley reports.
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Syria's dictator is trying to quash the remnants of rebellion by bombing hospitals. Still, brave doctors in the country, many of them American volunteers, are risking everything to save lives. Scott Pelley reports.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Arab leaders in Jordan on Saturday to discuss how to achieve a stable Syria. For the first time, Blinken said the U.S. was in "direct contact" with the country's new Islamist leaders. Imtiaz Tyab has more.
A man identifying himself as an American has been found in Syria after being freed from a prison. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer spoke with the man about what it was like to be detained in Syria. Then, CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab joins with more from Aleppo.
Syrian rebel forces were approaching the country's third largest city of Homs, raising the prospect of the country's capital city Damascus being cut off from coastal areas that are a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad. Chris Livesay reports.
Syria's government forces are fighting to gain back control of Aleppo after an Islamist rebel group seized the city last week. CBS News Pentagon reporter Eleanor Watson has the latest.
The Syrian military and Russian forces launched joint airstrikes Monday targeting rebel groups that seized control of the nation's largest city, Aleppo. Syria's civil war has stood at a stalemate for years, but over the weekend, rebel fighters captured cities and towns across three of the nation's northwestern provinces. CBS News senior national security correspondent Charlie D'Agata has more.
Over the weekend, rebel fighters in Syria took control of most of Aleppo, the country's second-largest city, in a lightning assault. President Bashar al-Assad's regime has responded with airstrikes backed by Russia. CBS News reporter Courtney Kealy has more.
Syria's civil war has taken a dramatic turn, with dictator Bashar Assad once again leaning on Russian support after a shock offensive by Islamist rebels in Aleppo.
Scott Pelley reports on how hospitals have become targets in Syria's civil war; then, San Francisco’s leaning tower of lawsuits; and, Jennifer Lawrence's surprising trip to the top of Hollywood
Mohammad Shasho's family left Aleppo in 2013, telling their children they were taking a prolonged vacation. That "vacation" was an evacuation prompted by Syria's eight-year-old civil war, and it became a permanent exile. In a film produced by BYkids, we see the Syrian crisis through the eyes of a young refugee filmmaker.
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The Justice Department defended itself after the Wall Street Journal revealed it has received subpoenas in connection with a leak investigation.
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The 18 Americans who were aboard a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship have returned to the U.S. and are now in quarantine. One remains in the biocontainment unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center after testing positive. Ian Lee has more.
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