Roger Carstens, the White House special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, speaks on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” from Jordan after traveling to Syria to seek information on Austin Tice. In Syria, he said he was “stunned” by the number of prisons that operated under Assad’s rule, making the search for Tice even more … Read more
Damascus — In a remote corner outside Damascus, Syria, a now-abandoned potato chip factory reveals one of the world’s many dark but revealed secrets. fallen regime of Bashar al-Assad. A CBS News crew gained access to the site and found a warehouse stocked with industrial-scale hydrochloric acid and acetic acid, which are chemical precursors needed … Read more
A prison in eastern Syria is housing thousands of ISIS prisoners. The prison director said the inmates did not know that the Syrian regime in Damascus had been overthrown. The prison is guarded by U.S.-backed Syrian forces, which control about a quarter of the country. Senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams has more.
Most Western countries, including the United States, have designated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a terrorist organization. But now that the group has ousted former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the question now facing world leaders is whether they should recognize the group. Imtiaz Tyab reports from Syria