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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A grim reminder of the U.S. invasion of Iraq was the torture of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison. A survivor describes his life since then.
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Baghdad is relatively safe as it marks 20 years since the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. It's still a nervous city that's known periodic cycles of violence and an ongoing lack of basic services.
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A visit to northwestern Syria — where a rebel-held area has been needing for help for years — shows residents struggling to survive after the massive earthquake last week.
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The effort to rescue a man under the rubble in the Turkish city of Antakya is just one story of thousands playing out in the vast path of the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria.
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Damage from Monday's earthquake stretches for hundreds of miles in the two countries. Crews are searching for survivors, and offers of aid are pouring in from across the world.
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Search-and-rescue efforts were underway as the death toll soared from the powerful earthquake that hit southeastern Turkey and northern Syria early Monday.
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Search-and-rescue efforts were underway as the death toll soared from the powerful earthquake that hit southeastern Turkey and northern Syria early Monday.
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Trash near Beirut's airport attracts so many seagulls that one proposal would bring in hunters to shoot them down. But stray bullets, from celebratory gunfire, are already a problem at the airport.
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Two years after an explosion at Beirut's port killed hundreds, no officials suspected of ignoring safety warnings have been tried. Now a prosecutor and a judge are trading charges — as protests grow.
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A seed bank in rural Lebanon is proving important for food production in regions all over the world adapting to warming temperatures.