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A team of U.S. Green Berets were air dropped into the mountains of northern Iraq to assess what it will take to rescue refugees on the run from ISIS. The troops will determine whether the best way to extract the refugees will be by airlift, or creating a land corridor that would provide a secure exit on the ground. David Martin reports.
Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes (the brother of CBS News president David Rhodes) says the White House won't rule out sending in additional non-combat forces for a humanitarian mission in Iraq.
One hundred thirty U.S. military advisors have arrived in Iraq to assess how to help the Yazidis, a religious minority who are stranded on a mountain top after being forced to flee from ISIS attacks. Meanwhile, ISIS continues its attempts to shoot down helicopters dropping food and supplies. Holly Williams reports from Erbil, Iraq.
President Obama authorized airstrikes "if necessary" against Islamic militants who have advanced into the Kurdish region of Iraq and seized the country's largest dam.
Elizabeth Palmer reports from inside the city of Aleppo -- a first-hand account of what life is like in a Syrian city ravaged by over three years of civil war.
Refugees are flooding out of Mosul into the northern city of Erbil, but hardly any of them are frightened of ISIS's armed extremists. Most are Sunni Muslims who resent their country's government. Holly Williams reports.
Continuing his Middle East visit, Pope Francis flew from Jordan to Bethlehem in the West Bank to visit with Palestinian refugees. This is the first time a Pope has flown directly to the the West Bank instead of Israel. Adriana Diaz reports.
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom traveled to Jordan to meet with children from Syria and their families, whose lives have been devastated by the conflict in their home country.
It has been 10 years since the beginning of the Syrian civil war. Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and millions have been displaced from their homes. CBS News foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer spoke with CBSN's Tanya Rivero with her perspective from reporting on one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
It has been 10 years since a violent crackdown on protests against Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad began escalating into civil war. Since then, more than 388,000 people have died and millions fled their homes. Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group, joined "CBSN AM" to discuss the ongoing impact.
Ammar Haj's family are just surviving as refugees in Jordan, but with child labor, sexual violence and suicide attempts rising - and hope fading - they're may be the lucky ones.
Best-selling author Viet Thanh Nguyen talks to Jan Crawford about his new novel, out this week. "The Committed," a sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Sympathizer," continues the story of the refugee narrator from Nguyen's first book. The novels have earned him the description as "a conscience of American literature."
Ethiopia is moving closer to peace talks in its northern Tigray Region. On Friday, officials in Tigray laid out conditions for negotiations, including unrestricted access to humanitarian aid. Lana Zak spoke with Francesco Rocca, president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, about the humanitarian crisis in that region.
In Central America, whole communities were wiped out by hurricanes that were strengthened by human-caused climate change in the 2020 season. CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli speaks to migrants heading north in search of safety. Then Kayly Ober, a senior advocate at Refugees International, joins CBSN's Lana Zak to talk about climate-driven migration happening across the globe.
The commitment is part of the Biden administration's efforts to rebuild the country's long-standing refugee program, which was gutted under Trump.
President Biden called it a "down payment" on his commitment to resettle up to 125,000 refugees during fiscal year 2022, which begins in October.
Trump repeatedly slashed refugee admissions, allocating 15,000 spots last year — a historic low.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has promised an investigation as officers stand accused of hitting protesters and journalists with truncheons, and he wants it done in 48 hours.
The Taliban is calling on President-elect Joe Biden to stick with a February agreement to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Hong Kong's pro-democracy lawmakers have all resigned in a show of defiance after four politicians were expelled from the government, and Sudan is bracing for up to 200,000 refugees to pour into the country while trying to escape deadly violence in neighboring Ethiopia. CBS News' Rylee Carlson has the headlines from London.
In 2015, then-candidate Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to build a wall spanning the entire southern border with Mexico. Mireya Villarreal rode along with Border Patrol to see how those plans developed.
Deadly clashes and attacks are gripping parts of Afghanistan's Helmand province as fragile peace talks with the Taliban continue. The U.S. and Afghan government fired back with airstrikes. BBC News chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet joins CBSN from Kabul to take us through the latest developments.
The International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop are teaming up on a major new effort to help young Syrian refugee children, including a new Sesame show in Arabic. Lesley Stahl reports.
The International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop are teaming up on a major new effort to help young Syrian refugee children, including a new Sesame show in Arabic.
Sesame Workshop and International Rescue Committee are collaborating to teach children how to handle tough emotions. The new Sesame edition is being made with refugee kids in mind.
In September alone, nearly 2,000 migrants entered the U.K. illegally by boat -- more than all of 2019. In response, authorities are cracking down on human smugglers, and reportedly considering housing asylum-seekers on disused ferries while their claims are being processed. BBC News' Simon Jones has this report for CBSN.
