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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The beauty of bouquets comes with a cost to the cloud forests of Colombia, the largest exporter of flowers and foliage to the United States. -
President Trump's threats to impose new tariffs on European goods has caused Americans to suddenly stockpile their favorite Italian wines – especially prosecco.
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President Trump's threats to impose new tariffs on European goods has led Americans to suddenly stockpile their favorite Italian wines, especially sparkling prosecco. -
Italian politicians want action against a hunting party that included the president's son, who they accuse of allegedly killing a ruddy shelduck. One Italian paper called it the "Donald Duck crisis." -
Mass graves are being discovered in Syria, testament to the horrors committed under the now ousted leader Bashar al Assad. The story of one man forced to help dig some of those graves.
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In Italy, questions swirl around a possible deal between Elon Musk's Space X company and the far-right government.
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a baby girl, born at sea on an overcrowded rubber dinghy, has been rescued with her mother.
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Eyewitness testimony from several prisoners held for years in Syria's most notorious prison tell NPR about systematic executions. They recall details of how mass murder was committed and covered up.
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NPR's Leila Fadel, Jane Arraf, and Ruth Sherlock share their reporting from Syria more than a week after the fall of the Assad regime.
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