Ruth Sherlock
Story Archive
Inside an emergency room at Rafik Hariri Hospital on Nov. 17, a medic wearing full protective gear checks a woman who might have the coronavirus. Beirut hospitals are reaching maximum capacity amid an influx of coronavirus patients. Marwan Naamani/picture alliance via Getty Images hide caption
Lebanon's Full Hospitals Turn Away Coronavirus Patients Amid Record Daily Cases
Smoke billows behind a plane that brought Yemen's new government to Aden International Airport on Wednesday. Explosions rocked the airport shortly after the plane arrived. Saleh Al-Obeidi/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Deadly Explosion Rocks Yemeni Airport Just As New Government Members Land
Migrants Continue To Die In Attempts To Cross Mediterranean Sea To Europe
A view of a mosque destroyed by regime forces in Douma, Syria, on March 21, 2018. Douma, on the outskirts of Damascus, was targeted by an air strike carried out by Syrian government forces. Muhmmad Al-Najjar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
Syrians buy bread at a shop in the town of Binnish in the country's northwestern Idlib province in June. Nowadays, people say they're waiting up to six hours in line for a meager government bread ration. Omar Haj Kadour /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A cedar tree that burned in a recent wildfire, in the Mishmish forest, Akkar, Lebanon. Sam Tarling for NPR hide caption