The World from PRX

Lyse Doucet

Fighting continues in Syria, where Kurdish troops from the People's Protection Units are facing down ISIS militants in Raqqa, Syria.
Conflict
Is Syria ‘the war of our time, a humanitarian test of our time?’
A demonstrator holds a banner with a picture of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during a protest against the entry of American troops into Iraq on September 26, 2014. The words on the banner read "No No America."
Conflict
A militant Iraqi cleric wants to fight ISIS without US help, and he’s far from alone
Palestinians fled in a vehicle Monday from Israeli shelling in Bet Lahiya in northern Gaza Strip.
Conflict & Justice
Civilians in Gaza City say nowhere is safe amidst the Israeli assault on Hamas targets
A student takes a test in Hama, Syria. Despite the ongoing war, students in many parts of Syria are taking comprehensive exams.
Development & Education
Whoever hears of students being overjoyed to take final exams?
Buildings covered with snow in Homs
Conflict & Justice
The situation in Syria is awful. And that was before winter arrived
Syrian health workers administer polio vaccination to a girl at a school in Damascus, in this file photo taken by Syria's national news agency SANA in October.
Health & Medicine
Polio adds one more heartbreak to a Syria wracked by war
Global Politics
Examining the Obama-Karzai relationship