Ruth Sherlock
Ruth Sherlock is an International Correspondent with National Public Radio. She's based in Beirut and reports on Syria and other countries around the Middle East. She was previously the United States Editor for the Daily Telegraph, covering the 2016 US election. Before moving to the US in the spring of 2015, she was the Telegraph's Middle East correspondent.
Sherlock reported from almost every revolution and war of the Arab Spring. She lived in Libya for the duration of the conflict, reporting from opposition front lines. In late 2011 she travelled to Syria, going undercover in regime held areas to document the arrest and torture of antigovernment demonstrators. As the war began in earnest, she hired smugglers to cross into rebel held parts of Syria from Turkey and Lebanon. She also developed contacts on the regime side of the conflict, and was given rare access in government held areas.
Her Libya coverage won her the Young Journalist of the Year prize at British Press Awards. In 2014, she was shortlisted at the British Journalism Awards for her investigation into the Syrian regime's continued use of chemical weapons. She has twice been a finalist for the Gaby Rado Award with Amnesty International for reporting with a focus on human rights. With NPR, in 2020, her reporting for the Embedded podcast was shortlisted for the prestigious Livingston Award.
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After the war with Hamas began, Israel warned Palestinians in north Gaza to flee to south. Families fled homes in north Gaza for the south — only to find their lives are still in danger.
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With each day Israeli troops fight Hamas in Gaza, there's increasing concern that Lebanon's Hezbollah militants could enter the war. There's already been sporadic fighting on Israel's northern border.
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The last time Israel had boots on the ground in Gaza was nine years ago. As the country prepares for another possible ground invasion of Gaza, veterans share reflections from the previous war.
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Volunteers have stepped in to help the families of kidnapping victims, filling what they see as a leadership gap between the government and the survivors of the Oct. 7 attack.
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It was a massive explosion at Baptist Al Ahli hospital — a Christian hospital and one of the oldest in Gaza. Doctors there tell NPR they are still uncovering bodies
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Record numbers of migrants who try to cross the Mediterranean Sea for Europe are dying in the attempt. We go aboard a search and rescue ship that is trying to help migrants in distress.
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A new report by Human Rights Watch says the U.S. still hasn't helped Iraqi victims of abuse in the Abu Ghraib prison 20 years ago. That matches a report NPR did with one man this spring.
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Thousands of migrants crossing from Tunisia to the Italian island of Lampedusa are overwhelming the tiny island, and testing the welcome of those who live there.
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More information is emerging about the vast scale and loss of life in Libya as aid groups begin arriving after the storm and catastrophic flooding.
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Officials say hundreds are dead and thousands feared missing after a storm unleashes massive flooding in underserved and war-divided towns in Libya.