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Hundreds of thousands of Turks and Syrians have been left homeless, with a rising death toll of 25,000 so far. The vigil held on Saturday afternoon was coordinated by volunteers with the \u003ca href=\"https://acsyria.org\">American Coalition for Syria\u003c/a>, a group of organizations that advocate for freedom, democratic reform and human rights in Syria.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maya Fallaha, Belmont resident\"]'It's been a mix of initially shock and numbness, and now it's shifting to pain, immense grief and anger.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We continue to stand in solidarity with the Turkish and Syrian people who continue to face a lot of trials and tribulations,” said Youman Horta, a 29-year-old Syrian American who lives in San Francisco. “We’re sitting here in the San Francisco Bay Area, very privileged, and the least we can do is just stand for three hours to get the word out to people. Seeing people come together, whether it’s just five or 500 … Every person counts, every dollar counts, and it helps a little bit knowing that there’s a community somewhere out there no matter how big or small.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a head scarf holds a sign that reads outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maya Fallaha holds a sign honoring the White Helmets at Union Square in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2023. The White Helmets are a volunteer organization providing aid to earthquake victims. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maya Fallaha from Belmont was at the vigil, mourning family members who died in the earthquake in Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11940413,forum_2010101892128\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“It's been a mix of initially shock and numbness, and now it's shifting to pain, immense grief and anger,\" said Fallaha. \"I have a cousin who lost his wife and 10-year-old son as they were attempting to escape their building that was collapsing as they were leaving. My cousin got out with his 4-month-old and two young children. But his eldest son, who's 10, and his wife, did not make it out unfortunately. So the least I can do is be out here and honor what they've been through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The White Helmets are our biggest heroes,” said Fallaha, referring to the famed Syrian volunteers who have put their lives on the line to help civilians through years of war in Syria, and now the earthquake. “They're the ones on the ground rescuing people. They themselves have lost people in the collapsed buildings, and they're working day and night without rest, trying to recover as much life as possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fallaha says the destruction from the earthquake is going to be a long-term catastrophe and she hopes that the world will rally behind and support the people who've already had to endure so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There isn't a person that I know in my Syrian community and Turkish community that hasn't been impacted in one way or another,\" she added. \"So I'm just trying to make sense of all of this and I'm not able to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Devastated infrastructure, including roads and airports, is complicating and hampering relief efforts, further exacerbated by freezing winter conditions as well as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/11/1155955553/turkey-earthquake-gaziantep-displaced-people\">food and water shortages\u003c/a>. The situation in northern Syria is particularly dire, as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/politics-syria-government-united-states-bashar-assad-e1bd001643fd8386e8ccb1fcd2a922f3\">humanitarian access is complicated by the civil war\u003c/a>, while sending funds can be blocked or slowed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/syria-sanctions/\">U.S. sanctions\u003c/a>, despite an exemption for relief efforts. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-2023-turkey-syria-earthquake-earthquakes-ad5598cbd7913e7a18b8717a04739ff9\">The first U.N. aid convoy didn’t enter Syria until Friday\u003c/a>, and Syrian Americans in the Bay Area say they have been struggling to get aid to their loved ones back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940874\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-800x600.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a black jacket and t-shirt holds a sign that reads \"the White Helmets\" in a crowd of people outside.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anas Abou-Ismail, a volunteer with the American Coalition for Syria, holds a sign honoring the White Helmets at Union Square in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Syrian-born Anas Abou-Ismail, a kidney doctor at biotech company CareDx, has lived in the U.S. for 12 years and says relatives and friends back home have told him the government there is not distributing aid to victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're sending all these things and then they just leave it up to the Syrian regime to do whatever they want with the aid. So what they end up doing is they do a few photo ops with them, with some affected people, but then they take everything back,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humanitarian groups working in southern Turkey and northwest Syria warn that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/earthquake-shakes-turkey-b927808f6a5c54bdb669120faa40b7bc\">Monday's earthquake\u003c/a> will have a “long tail” — a wide range of needs that will require donations for months, or even years, after the rescue and recovery missions end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going through a really severe winter and right now they don’t even have enough coats or jackets,” said Horta. “Syria’s also going through a famine, and things are very expensive, and there’s been a war going on. It’s not an easy thing to think about every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand outside holding signs in a square.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers with the American Coalition for Syria and community members gather at Union Square in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I'm Syrian, so I thought that we had been really conditioned to misery over these past 12 years, but this was just really too much,” said Abou-Ismail. “The scale of the destruction, especially in northwest Syria, was just shocking. And the number of people that [died] in both countries obviously just keeps going up ... So it's been a difficult time for everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are still in the shock phase, we're still trying to talk to everybody,\" he added. \"There are still people I haven't been able to talk to, so we're hoping for the best. 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Hundreds of thousands of Turks and Syrians have been left homeless, with a rising death toll of 25,000 so far. The vigil held on Saturday afternoon was coordinated by volunteers with the \u003ca href=\"https://acsyria.org\">American Coalition for Syria\u003c/a>, a group of organizations that advocate for freedom, democratic reform and human rights in Syria.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It's been a mix of initially shock and numbness, and now it's shifting to pain, immense grief and anger.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Maya Fallaha, Belmont resident","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We continue to stand in solidarity with the Turkish and Syrian people who continue to face a lot of trials and tribulations,” said Youman Horta, a 29-year-old Syrian American who lives in San Francisco. “We’re sitting here in the San Francisco Bay Area, very privileged, and the least we can do is just stand for three hours to get the word out to people. Seeing people come together, whether it’s just five or 500 … Every person counts, every dollar counts, and it helps a little bit knowing that there’s a community somewhere out there no matter how big or small.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a head scarf holds a sign that reads outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9380-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maya Fallaha holds a sign honoring the White Helmets at Union Square in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2023. The White Helmets are a volunteer organization providing aid to earthquake victims. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maya Fallaha from Belmont was at the vigil, mourning family members who died in the earthquake in Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11940413,forum_2010101892128","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It's been a mix of initially shock and numbness, and now it's shifting to pain, immense grief and anger,\" said Fallaha. \"I have a cousin who lost his wife and 10-year-old son as they were attempting to escape their building that was collapsing as they were leaving. My cousin got out with his 4-month-old and two young children. But his eldest son, who's 10, and his wife, did not make it out unfortunately. So the least I can do is be out here and honor what they've been through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The White Helmets are our biggest heroes,” said Fallaha, referring to the famed Syrian volunteers who have put their lives on the line to help civilians through years of war in Syria, and now the earthquake. “They're the ones on the ground rescuing people. They themselves have lost people in the collapsed buildings, and they're working day and night without rest, trying to recover as much life as possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fallaha says the destruction from the earthquake is going to be a long-term catastrophe and she hopes that the world will rally behind and support the people who've already had to endure so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There isn't a person that I know in my Syrian community and Turkish community that hasn't been impacted in one way or another,\" she added. \"So I'm just trying to make sense of all of this and I'm not able to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Devastated infrastructure, including roads and airports, is complicating and hampering relief efforts, further exacerbated by freezing winter conditions as well as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/11/1155955553/turkey-earthquake-gaziantep-displaced-people\">food and water shortages\u003c/a>. The situation in northern Syria is particularly dire, as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/politics-syria-government-united-states-bashar-assad-e1bd001643fd8386e8ccb1fcd2a922f3\">humanitarian access is complicated by the civil war\u003c/a>, while sending funds can be blocked or slowed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/syria-sanctions/\">U.S. sanctions\u003c/a>, despite an exemption for relief efforts. \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-2023-turkey-syria-earthquake-earthquakes-ad5598cbd7913e7a18b8717a04739ff9\">The first U.N. aid convoy didn’t enter Syria until Friday\u003c/a>, and Syrian Americans in the Bay Area say they have been struggling to get aid to their loved ones back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940874\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-800x600.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a black jacket and t-shirt holds a sign that reads \"the White Helmets\" in a crowd of people outside.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9385-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anas Abou-Ismail, a volunteer with the American Coalition for Syria, holds a sign honoring the White Helmets at Union Square in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Syrian-born Anas Abou-Ismail, a kidney doctor at biotech company CareDx, has lived in the U.S. for 12 years and says relatives and friends back home have told him the government there is not distributing aid to victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're sending all these things and then they just leave it up to the Syrian regime to do whatever they want with the aid. So what they end up doing is they do a few photo ops with them, with some affected people, but then they take everything back,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humanitarian groups working in southern Turkey and northwest Syria warn that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/earthquake-shakes-turkey-b927808f6a5c54bdb669120faa40b7bc\">Monday's earthquake\u003c/a> will have a “long tail” — a wide range of needs that will require donations for months, or even years, after the rescue and recovery missions end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going through a really severe winter and right now they don’t even have enough coats or jackets,” said Horta. “Syria’s also going through a famine, and things are very expensive, and there’s been a war going on. It’s not an easy thing to think about every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand outside holding signs in a square.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_9387-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers with the American Coalition for Syria and community members gather at Union Square in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I'm Syrian, so I thought that we had been really conditioned to misery over these past 12 years, but this was just really too much,” said Abou-Ismail. “The scale of the destruction, especially in northwest Syria, was just shocking. And the number of people that [died] in both countries obviously just keeps going up ... So it's been a difficult time for everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are still in the shock phase, we're still trying to talk to everybody,\" he added. \"There are still people I haven't been able to talk to, so we're hoping for the best. But this is the phase we're in right now just to make sure, like, who's OK, who's not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11940863/vigil-held-in-sfs-union-square-to-honor-victims-of-earthquake-in-turkey-and-syria","authors":["11812","11772"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32410","news_1012","news_27626","news_30528","news_4768","news_292","news_32411"],"featImg":"news_11940873","label":"news"},"news_11940413":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11940413","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11940413","score":null,"sort":[1675817142000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"an-emergency-within-an-emergency-how-to-help-syria-and-turkey-earthquake-rescue-and-relief-efforts","title":"'An Emergency Within an Emergency': How to Help Syria and Turkey Earthquake Relief Efforts","publishDate":1675817142,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:30 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rescue teams near the Turkish and Syrian border are continuing to search for people trapped under rubble after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the region early Monday. At least \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/08/world/turkey-syria-earthquake\">12,000 people had been confirmed dead as of Wednesday\u003c/a> and many are still missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area residents and community groups are now rallying to help relief efforts from afar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an emergency within an emergency. In Syria, people were already suffering as it is with a severely weakened infrastructure, depleted health care system, shortage of resources like water, electricity, you name it,” said Maya Fallaha, a Syrian American who lives in the Bay Area. “Now with the earthquake, it’s an additional blow for thousands of civilians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#earthquakedamage\">How to help families affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Fallaha received a text while she was at the gym from her father, who was visiting the south of Turkey, about the earthquake while he was being evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He texted me saying ‘big earthquake, very strong,’” Fallaha told KQED. “Immediately I’m concerned about my aunt who lives in the North of Syria and extended family and relatives. My initial reaction was just shock and trying to account for all my friends and family living in that area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buildings collapsed in both countries, scattering streets with heavy piles of concrete and debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Başak Altan, founder, Berkeley Turkish School\"]'We have an economy that is dependent on turning and popping out tall buildings, big dense units in earthquake-prone zones, despite the calls from earthquake scientists, geological experts. No one is listening.'[/pullquote]The \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/07/turkey-earthquake-syria-in-turkiye-2023-live-updates-latest-news-map-magnitude-7-8-scale-quake-tremor-death-toll-gaziantep-kahramanmaras\">death toll could rise to over 20,000\u003c/a>, according to Catherine Smallwood, the World Health Organization’s senior emergency officer for Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Turkish School founder Başak Altan felt a mix of frustration and sadness when she heard about the catastrophic quake, which comes amid an extreme winter and freezing temperatures for the affected region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of my family is in Turkey. Everyone knows someone who has been impacted, who is missing or died, friends or family they haven’t heard from. There are uncounted people in Turkey, refugees and immigrants,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altan lives in Berkeley, and remembers waking up nearly 23 years ago when another major earthquake flattened buildings near Istanbul and killed an estimated 18,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was devastating to wake up to this again. I don’t think a lot has changed in the last two decades in Turkey in terms of making the necessary changes for safety in an earthquake. We have an economy that is dependent on turning and popping out tall buildings, big dense units in earthquake-prone zones, despite the calls from earthquake scientists, geological experts. No one is listening,” said Altan. “People can’t be taken to the hospital because the hospital is in shambles. When you have this much devastation on top of devastation, it’s impossible to fathom how you help these poor souls that are there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghaidaa Mousabacha was born and raised in Syria, and now works as a behavioral counselor in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stressed that one of the most powerful things people in the U.S. can do to help is donate to organizations that are providing support on the ground to save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Keep them in your thoughts and prayers, but also make sure you speak to your government representatives about sending immediate rescue and aid,” Mousabacha said. “There is a lot of need for personnel and equipment and immediate shelter for the people without homes, especially in difficult winter conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple sources who spoke to KQED shared concerns over relief funds going through the Syrian and Turkish governments, and recommended that people who wish to donate do so through a vetted humanitarian aid group.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"earthquakedamage\">\u003c/a>Groups raising funds to provide direct aid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/EarthquakeSyria\">\u003cb>The Syrian American Medical Society\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>(SAMS)\u003c/b>\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/EarthquakeSyria\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>Foundation\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/a> is providing on-the-ground medical aid in Northwest Syria at hospitals and other medical facilities. The agency reported that four of their medical clinics were damaged by the earthquake and three of those are no longer operational due to such severe damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bridgetoturkiye.org/\">\u003cb>Bridge to Turkiye Fund\u003c/b>\u003c/a> is raising money to provide food, water and shelter to displaced families in southern Turkey as well as emotional support and well-being for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://srd.ngo/\">\u003cb>Syria Relief and Development (SRD)\u003c/b>\u003c/a> has deployed around 20 ambulances to respond to injuries and is raising $75,000 to continue providing medical care, gas for ambulances, shelter and food for survivors and responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sf-us.org/\">\u003cb>Syrian Forum USA\u003c/b>\u003c/a> provides education, job training and other economic services focused on women and young people. The organization is raising funds to provide blankets, winter clothing, shelter and heating to earthquake survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://medglobal.org/donations/general-donation-form/\">\u003cb>MedGlobal\u003c/b>\u003c/a>, an international emergency response nonprofit, provides medical support for Syrians displaced by war and violence, and is working with families affected by the earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/donate/497895759169495/\">\u003cb>Rahma WorldWide\u003c/b>\u003c/a>, based in Michigan, provides health services and food to communities in Syria and is fundraising to provide supplies to families in the earthquake disaster zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://swasia.org/donation/\">\u003cb>Swasia Charity Foundation\u003c/b>\u003c/a> is a U.S.-based humanitarian aid nonprofit raising funds for food baskets, cooked meals, blankets, heating supplies, medical consumables and other basic supplies in Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehelmets.org/en/\">\u003cb>The White Helmets\u003c/b>\u003c/a> are leading search-and-rescue efforts in many areas devastated by the earthquake. Around 300 volunteers are working to find unaccounted-for loved ones and maneuver equipment necessary to uncover rubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://donate.nudaysyria.org/give/465123/#!/donation/checkout\">\u003cb>NuDay Syria\u003c/b>\u003c/a> is partnering with the White Helmets to distribute food baskets, winter gear, emergency shelter, water and other basic necessities to those who have been displaced by the earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://mwlimits.org/syria-earthquake-emergency-appeal/\">\u003cb>Mercy Without Limits\u003c/b>\u003c/a> provides orphan care, education opportunities and basic needs such as water, food and shelter to women and children in Syria. The nonprofit is fundraising to provide food packages, water, blankets and shelter to families affected by the earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Christopher Alam.\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This story has been updated. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The 7.8 magnitude earthquake's death toll as of Wednesday was at least 12,000 people. Bay Area residents and community groups are rallying to help relief efforts from afar.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1675901374,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1028},"headData":{"title":"'An Emergency Within an Emergency': How to Help Syria and Turkey Earthquake Relief Efforts | KQED","description":"The 7.8 magnitude earthquake's death toll as of Wednesday was at least 12,000 people. Bay Area residents and community groups are rallying to help relief efforts from afar.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11940413/an-emergency-within-an-emergency-how-to-help-syria-and-turkey-earthquake-rescue-and-relief-efforts","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:30 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rescue teams near the Turkish and Syrian border are continuing to search for people trapped under rubble after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the region early Monday. At least \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/08/world/turkey-syria-earthquake\">12,000 people had been confirmed dead as of Wednesday\u003c/a> and many are still missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area residents and community groups are now rallying to help relief efforts from afar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an emergency within an emergency. In Syria, people were already suffering as it is with a severely weakened infrastructure, depleted health care system, shortage of resources like water, electricity, you name it,” said Maya Fallaha, a Syrian American who lives in the Bay Area. “Now with the earthquake, it’s an additional blow for thousands of civilians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#earthquakedamage\">How to help families affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Fallaha received a text while she was at the gym from her father, who was visiting the south of Turkey, about the earthquake while he was being evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He texted me saying ‘big earthquake, very strong,’” Fallaha told KQED. “Immediately I’m concerned about my aunt who lives in the North of Syria and extended family and relatives. My initial reaction was just shock and trying to account for all my friends and family living in that area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buildings collapsed in both countries, scattering streets with heavy piles of concrete and debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We have an economy that is dependent on turning and popping out tall buildings, big dense units in earthquake-prone zones, despite the calls from earthquake scientists, geological experts. No one is listening.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Başak Altan, founder, Berkeley Turkish School","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/07/turkey-earthquake-syria-in-turkiye-2023-live-updates-latest-news-map-magnitude-7-8-scale-quake-tremor-death-toll-gaziantep-kahramanmaras\">death toll could rise to over 20,000\u003c/a>, according to Catherine Smallwood, the World Health Organization’s senior emergency officer for Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Turkish School founder Başak Altan felt a mix of frustration and sadness when she heard about the catastrophic quake, which comes amid an extreme winter and freezing temperatures for the affected region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of my family is in Turkey. Everyone knows someone who has been impacted, who is missing or died, friends or family they haven’t heard from. There are uncounted people in Turkey, refugees and immigrants,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altan lives in Berkeley, and remembers waking up nearly 23 years ago when another major earthquake flattened buildings near Istanbul and killed an estimated 18,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was devastating to wake up to this again. I don’t think a lot has changed in the last two decades in Turkey in terms of making the necessary changes for safety in an earthquake. We have an economy that is dependent on turning and popping out tall buildings, big dense units in earthquake-prone zones, despite the calls from earthquake scientists, geological experts. No one is listening,” said Altan. “People can’t be taken to the hospital because the hospital is in shambles. When you have this much devastation on top of devastation, it’s impossible to fathom how you help these poor souls that are there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghaidaa Mousabacha was born and raised in Syria, and now works as a behavioral counselor in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stressed that one of the most powerful things people in the U.S. can do to help is donate to organizations that are providing support on the ground to save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Keep them in your thoughts and prayers, but also make sure you speak to your government representatives about sending immediate rescue and aid,” Mousabacha said. “There is a lot of need for personnel and equipment and immediate shelter for the people without homes, especially in difficult winter conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple sources who spoke to KQED shared concerns over relief funds going through the Syrian and Turkish governments, and recommended that people who wish to donate do so through a vetted humanitarian aid group.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"earthquakedamage\">\u003c/a>Groups raising funds to provide direct aid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/EarthquakeSyria\">\u003cb>The Syrian American Medical Society\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>(SAMS)\u003c/b>\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/EarthquakeSyria\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>Foundation\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/a> is providing on-the-ground medical aid in Northwest Syria at hospitals and other medical facilities. The agency reported that four of their medical clinics were damaged by the earthquake and three of those are no longer operational due to such severe damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bridgetoturkiye.org/\">\u003cb>Bridge to Turkiye Fund\u003c/b>\u003c/a> is raising money to provide food, water and shelter to displaced families in southern Turkey as well as emotional support and well-being for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://srd.ngo/\">\u003cb>Syria Relief and Development (SRD)\u003c/b>\u003c/a> has deployed around 20 ambulances to respond to injuries and is raising $75,000 to continue providing medical care, gas for ambulances, shelter and food for survivors and responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sf-us.org/\">\u003cb>Syrian Forum USA\u003c/b>\u003c/a> provides education, job training and other economic services focused on women and young people. The organization is raising funds to provide blankets, winter clothing, shelter and heating to earthquake survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://medglobal.org/donations/general-donation-form/\">\u003cb>MedGlobal\u003c/b>\u003c/a>, an international emergency response nonprofit, provides medical support for Syrians displaced by war and violence, and is working with families affected by the earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/donate/497895759169495/\">\u003cb>Rahma WorldWide\u003c/b>\u003c/a>, based in Michigan, provides health services and food to communities in Syria and is fundraising to provide supplies to families in the earthquake disaster zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://swasia.org/donation/\">\u003cb>Swasia Charity Foundation\u003c/b>\u003c/a> is a U.S.-based humanitarian aid nonprofit raising funds for food baskets, cooked meals, blankets, heating supplies, medical consumables and other basic supplies in Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehelmets.org/en/\">\u003cb>The White Helmets\u003c/b>\u003c/a> are leading search-and-rescue efforts in many areas devastated by the earthquake. Around 300 volunteers are working to find unaccounted-for loved ones and maneuver equipment necessary to uncover rubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://donate.nudaysyria.org/give/465123/#!/donation/checkout\">\u003cb>NuDay Syria\u003c/b>\u003c/a> is partnering with the White Helmets to distribute food baskets, winter gear, emergency shelter, water and other basic necessities to those who have been displaced by the earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://mwlimits.org/syria-earthquake-emergency-appeal/\">\u003cb>Mercy Without Limits\u003c/b>\u003c/a> provides orphan care, education opportunities and basic needs such as water, food and shelter to women and children in Syria. The nonprofit is fundraising to provide food packages, water, blankets and shelter to families affected by the earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Christopher Alam.\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This story has been updated. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11940413/an-emergency-within-an-emergency-how-to-help-syria-and-turkey-earthquake-rescue-and-relief-efforts","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_21640","news_1012","news_17826","news_27626","news_881","news_4768","news_292"],"featImg":"news_11940425","label":"news"},"news_11662423":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11662423","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11662423","score":null,"sort":[1523814103000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"debates-ensue-after-western-missiles-hit-syria","title":"Debates Ensue After Western Missiles Hit Syria","publishDate":1523814103,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The U.S., France and the U.K. targeted chemical weapons sites in Syria early Saturday. Since the launch of more than 100 missiles, a war of words has ensued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of Russian lawmakers who met with Syrian President Bashar Assad said he considered the airstrikes an act of aggression, but also that Assad was in a \"good mood,\" Reuters \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-assad-russia/syrias-assad-tells-russian-lawmakers-western-strikes-were-act-of-aggression-idUSKBN1HM083\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported\u003c/a>. Russian news agencies quoted a lawmaker who said that the airstrikes would unify the country, the Associate Press reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has also been debate over how the missiles fared across the sky. The Russia military claimed that Syria's air defenses shot down some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/14/602452430/pentagon-precise-overwhelming-effective-attack-on-syrian-facilities\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missiles launched by Western forces\u003c/a>. But the U.S. Department of Defense \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript-View/Article/1493749/department-of-defense-press-briefing-by-pentagon-chief-spokesperson-dana-w-whit/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said\u003c/a> on Saturday that none of the missiles were downed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Saturday press briefing, Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. said, \"None of our aircraft or missiles involved in this operation were successfully engaged by Syrian air defenses, and we have no indication that Russian air-defense systems were employed. We are confident that all of our missiles reached their targets. At the end of the strike mission, all our aircraft safely returned to their bases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Sunday \u003cem>Telegraph\u003c/em> opinion piece, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson reinforced U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May's statement that the strikes were not about meant to drive regime change or interference in Syria's civil war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/14/602550478/images-show-3-syrian-chemical-weapons-sites-before-and-after-missile-strikes\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missiles were launched\u003c/a> to degrade and deter the Assad regime's ability to deploy chemical weapons. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/airstrikes-show-we-stand-up-for-principle-and-civilised-values-article-by-boris-johnson\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote\u003c/a>, \"If we do nothing there will be other people and other governments around the world who will look at the impunity of Assad and ask themselves: they got away with it - why shouldn't I?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that despite Syria's commitment in 2013 to destroying its chemical arsenal — and Russia's promise to supervise to it – \"the Assad Regime and Russia has made a complete mockery of that pledge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the leader of Britain's opposition party, Jeremy Corbin, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/985218036532641792\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">described\u003c/a> Saturday's strike as a \"legally questionable attack.\" He said that Parliament should have been consulted before the attacks occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days leading up to the U.S.-led airstrike, both Syria and Russia said that reports of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/08/600632906/syrian-government-accused-of-killing-dozens-in-chemical-attack\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chemical attack\u003c/a> were fabricated. The Russian government accused the U.K. of staging the attack, which the British government says is \"ludicrous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense Secretary Jim Mattis \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/1493610/statement-by-secretary-james-n-mattis-on-syria/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said\u003c/a> in a written statement on Friday that an onslaught of fake information would be coming. \"Based on recent experience, we fully expect a significant disinformation campaign over the coming days by those who have aligned themselves with the Assad regime,\" Mattis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasmine el-Gamal, the Pentagon's Syria country director during the Obama administration, told NPR's Weekend Edition on Sunday that the strikes were successful because they showed that President Trump was following through on his commitment. She said that the missile strikes should be expanded. \"We are actually telling Assad that it's okay to kill Syrians in any other way but through chemical weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile early on Sunday morning, President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/985492862958698497\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted\u003c/a>, \"The Syrian raid was so perfectly carried out, with such precision, that the only way the Fake News Media could demean was by my use of the term 'Mission Accomplished.' I knew they would seize on this but felt it is such a great Military term, it should be brought back. Use often!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/985492862958698497\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/23/503115218/trump-chooses-south-carolina-gov-nikki-haley-as-u-n-ambassador\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikki Haley\u003c/a>, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said on Sunday that new sanctions on Russia will be announced Monday. \"They will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to Assad and chemical weapons use,\" she said in an interview with CBS' \u003cem>Face the Nation\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Debates+Ensue+After+Western+Missiles+Hit+Syria&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The U.S., Britain and France carried out airstrikes against chemical research, storage and military facilities in Syria following a suspected chemical weapons attack.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1523814103,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":647},"headData":{"title":"Debates Ensue After Western Missiles Hit Syria | KQED","description":"The U.S., Britain and France carried out airstrikes against chemical research, storage and military facilities in Syria following a suspected chemical weapons attack.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11662423 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11662423","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/04/15/debates-ensue-after-western-missiles-hit-syria/","disqusTitle":"Debates Ensue After Western Missiles Hit Syria","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org","nprImageCredit":"Hassan Ammar","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Sasha Ingber\u003c/strong>","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"602618667","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=602618667&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/15/602618667/debates-ensue-after-western-missiles-hit-syria?ft=nprml&f=602618667","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sun, 15 Apr 2018 11:55:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Sun, 15 Apr 2018 11:44:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sun, 15 Apr 2018 11:55:39 -0400","path":"/news/11662423/debates-ensue-after-western-missiles-hit-syria","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The U.S., France and the U.K. targeted chemical weapons sites in Syria early Saturday. Since the launch of more than 100 missiles, a war of words has ensued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of Russian lawmakers who met with Syrian President Bashar Assad said he considered the airstrikes an act of aggression, but also that Assad was in a \"good mood,\" Reuters \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-assad-russia/syrias-assad-tells-russian-lawmakers-western-strikes-were-act-of-aggression-idUSKBN1HM083\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported\u003c/a>. Russian news agencies quoted a lawmaker who said that the airstrikes would unify the country, the Associate Press reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has also been debate over how the missiles fared across the sky. The Russia military claimed that Syria's air defenses shot down some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/14/602452430/pentagon-precise-overwhelming-effective-attack-on-syrian-facilities\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missiles launched by Western forces\u003c/a>. But the U.S. Department of Defense \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript-View/Article/1493749/department-of-defense-press-briefing-by-pentagon-chief-spokesperson-dana-w-whit/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said\u003c/a> on Saturday that none of the missiles were downed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Saturday press briefing, Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. said, \"None of our aircraft or missiles involved in this operation were successfully engaged by Syrian air defenses, and we have no indication that Russian air-defense systems were employed. We are confident that all of our missiles reached their targets. At the end of the strike mission, all our aircraft safely returned to their bases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Sunday \u003cem>Telegraph\u003c/em> opinion piece, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson reinforced U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May's statement that the strikes were not about meant to drive regime change or interference in Syria's civil war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/14/602550478/images-show-3-syrian-chemical-weapons-sites-before-and-after-missile-strikes\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missiles were launched\u003c/a> to degrade and deter the Assad regime's ability to deploy chemical weapons. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/airstrikes-show-we-stand-up-for-principle-and-civilised-values-article-by-boris-johnson\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote\u003c/a>, \"If we do nothing there will be other people and other governments around the world who will look at the impunity of Assad and ask themselves: they got away with it - why shouldn't I?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that despite Syria's commitment in 2013 to destroying its chemical arsenal — and Russia's promise to supervise to it – \"the Assad Regime and Russia has made a complete mockery of that pledge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the leader of Britain's opposition party, Jeremy Corbin, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/985218036532641792\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">described\u003c/a> Saturday's strike as a \"legally questionable attack.\" He said that Parliament should have been consulted before the attacks occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days leading up to the U.S.-led airstrike, both Syria and Russia said that reports of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/08/600632906/syrian-government-accused-of-killing-dozens-in-chemical-attack\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chemical attack\u003c/a> were fabricated. The Russian government accused the U.K. of staging the attack, which the British government says is \"ludicrous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense Secretary Jim Mattis \u003ca href=\"https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/1493610/statement-by-secretary-james-n-mattis-on-syria/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said\u003c/a> in a written statement on Friday that an onslaught of fake information would be coming. \"Based on recent experience, we fully expect a significant disinformation campaign over the coming days by those who have aligned themselves with the Assad regime,\" Mattis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasmine el-Gamal, the Pentagon's Syria country director during the Obama administration, told NPR's Weekend Edition on Sunday that the strikes were successful because they showed that President Trump was following through on his commitment. She said that the missile strikes should be expanded. \"We are actually telling Assad that it's okay to kill Syrians in any other way but through chemical weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile early on Sunday morning, President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/985492862958698497\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted\u003c/a>, \"The Syrian raid was so perfectly carried out, with such precision, that the only way the Fake News Media could demean was by my use of the term 'Mission Accomplished.' I knew they would seize on this but felt it is such a great Military term, it should be brought back. Use often!\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"985492862958698497"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/23/503115218/trump-chooses-south-carolina-gov-nikki-haley-as-u-n-ambassador\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikki Haley\u003c/a>, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said on Sunday that new sanctions on Russia will be announced Monday. \"They will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to Assad and chemical weapons use,\" she said in an interview with CBS' \u003cem>Face the Nation\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Debates+Ensue+After+Western+Missiles+Hit+Syria&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11662423/debates-ensue-after-western-missiles-hit-syria","authors":["byline_news_11662423"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20481","news_20279","news_4768"],"featImg":"news_11662424","label":"source_news_11662423"},"news_11662298":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11662298","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11662298","score":null,"sort":[1523715805000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"u-s-led-coalition-launches-attacks-on-syria","title":"U.S., Allies Hit 3 Syrian Sites Linked to Chemical Weapons Program","publishDate":1523715805,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 2:03 a.m. ET Saturday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S., Britain and France carried out airstrikes early Saturday against three sites in Syria in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack last week by President Bashar Assad's regime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are prepared to sustain this response until the Syrian regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents,\" President Trump said in televised remarks from the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford said the three countries called on warships and piloted aircraft to hit the sites linked to Syria's chemical weapons program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One site was a science research facility in Damascus, the Syrian capital, where residents said loud explosions rang out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other two were storage facilities around Homs, a city to the north of Damascus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents in Damascus were caught off guard by the strikes, independent reporter Danny Makki told NPR, speaking from Damascus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything over the previous 48 hours has indicated toward some sort of de-escalation, that the attacks might happen in the future. But for the attacks to happen in this way at this particular time — it's taken Damascus by surprise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syrian state media said the country's \"air defenses shot down 13 missiles south of Damascus,\" NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports from Beirut. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gen. Dunford said the attacks would substantially reduce Syria's ability to research, develop and use chemical weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were no immediate reports on casualties or the extent of the damage. The Pentagon said it would provide a more detailed assessment on Saturday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sites were chosen to minimize civilian loss of life and possible release of chemical agents, the Pentagon officials said. Mattis said the number of weapons used was about double those employed in a strike in April 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that instance, 59 Tomahawk missiles were fired at a Syrian airbase in the western part of the country following a chemical attack blamed on Assad's forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mattis said he was not aware of any U.S. losses, and added, \"Right now we have no additional attacks planned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense secretary said on Thursday that he favored a measure response aimed at chemical weapons facilities, and did not want the U.S. to become more deeply involved in a complicated, many-sided conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunford said the U.S. used its regular communication channels with the Russians to inform them about the U.S. aircraft, but did not warn the Russians about the targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Syria had used chemical weapons at least 50 times since the war broke out in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ0PA1KnTBE&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. has about 2,000 troops in northeastern Syria, where they have partnered with Kurdish fighters to dismantle the Islamic State. With the extremist group largely defeated, the president says he supports the withdrawal of U.S. forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"America does not seek an indefinite presence in Syria,\" he said. \"The United States will be a partner and a friend. But the fate of the region lies in the hands of its own people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. military officials have said they believe the American forces should remain a while longer to help stabilize the places where ISIS was pushed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, meanwhile, also addressed the governments of Iran and Russia, both of which support Assad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I ask what kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children,\" Trump said. \"The nations of the world can be judged by the friends they keep. No nation can succeed in the long run by promoting rogue states, brutal tyrants and murderous dictators.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to Assad, Trump said, \"These are not the actions of a man. They are crimes of a monster instead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspected chemical attack occurred on April 7 in the Damascus suburb of Douma, which had been held by rebel forces for years in Syria's continuing civil war. Civilians and rebel forces abandoned Douma following the latest attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days leading up to the U.S. attack, Russia had warned that it would defend its troops in Syria. This has raised fears of a possible direct clash of U.S. and Russian forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement late Friday night, the Russian ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Antonov, said, \"We warned that such actions will not be left without consequences. All responsibility for them rests with Washington, London and Paris.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, the Russians have continued to help Assad's regime improve its position in much of the country as it battles various rebel groups. Assad's government controls most of the major cities, which are located in the western part of the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=U.S.%2C+Allies+Hit+3+Syrian+Sites+Linked+To+Chemical+Weapons+Program&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"President Trump ordered the strikes in response to the suspected chemical weapons attack on April 7 by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Britain and France also took part.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1523715805,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":812},"headData":{"title":"U.S., Allies Hit 3 Syrian Sites Linked to Chemical Weapons Program | KQED","description":"President Trump ordered the strikes in response to the suspected chemical weapons attack on April 7 by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. 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Joe Dunford said the three countries called on warships and piloted aircraft to hit the sites linked to Syria's chemical weapons program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One site was a science research facility in Damascus, the Syrian capital, where residents said loud explosions rang out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other two were storage facilities around Homs, a city to the north of Damascus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents in Damascus were caught off guard by the strikes, independent reporter Danny Makki told NPR, speaking from Damascus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything over the previous 48 hours has indicated toward some sort of de-escalation, that the attacks might happen in the future. But for the attacks to happen in this way at this particular time — it's taken Damascus by surprise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syrian state media said the country's \"air defenses shot down 13 missiles south of Damascus,\" NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports from Beirut. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gen. Dunford said the attacks would substantially reduce Syria's ability to research, develop and use chemical weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were no immediate reports on casualties or the extent of the damage. The Pentagon said it would provide a more detailed assessment on Saturday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sites were chosen to minimize civilian loss of life and possible release of chemical agents, the Pentagon officials said. Mattis said the number of weapons used was about double those employed in a strike in April 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that instance, 59 Tomahawk missiles were fired at a Syrian airbase in the western part of the country following a chemical attack blamed on Assad's forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mattis said he was not aware of any U.S. losses, and added, \"Right now we have no additional attacks planned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense secretary said on Thursday that he favored a measure response aimed at chemical weapons facilities, and did not want the U.S. to become more deeply involved in a complicated, many-sided conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunford said the U.S. used its regular communication channels with the Russians to inform them about the U.S. aircraft, but did not warn the Russians about the targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Syria had used chemical weapons at least 50 times since the war broke out in 2011.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/iZ0PA1KnTBE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/iZ0PA1KnTBE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The U.S. has about 2,000 troops in northeastern Syria, where they have partnered with Kurdish fighters to dismantle the Islamic State. With the extremist group largely defeated, the president says he supports the withdrawal of U.S. forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"America does not seek an indefinite presence in Syria,\" he said. \"The United States will be a partner and a friend. But the fate of the region lies in the hands of its own people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. military officials have said they believe the American forces should remain a while longer to help stabilize the places where ISIS was pushed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, meanwhile, also addressed the governments of Iran and Russia, both of which support Assad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I ask what kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children,\" Trump said. \"The nations of the world can be judged by the friends they keep. No nation can succeed in the long run by promoting rogue states, brutal tyrants and murderous dictators.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to Assad, Trump said, \"These are not the actions of a man. They are crimes of a monster instead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspected chemical attack occurred on April 7 in the Damascus suburb of Douma, which had been held by rebel forces for years in Syria's continuing civil war. Civilians and rebel forces abandoned Douma following the latest attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days leading up to the U.S. attack, Russia had warned that it would defend its troops in Syria. This has raised fears of a possible direct clash of U.S. and Russian forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement late Friday night, the Russian ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Antonov, said, \"We warned that such actions will not be left without consequences. All responsibility for them rests with Washington, London and Paris.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, the Russians have continued to help Assad's regime improve its position in much of the country as it battles various rebel groups. Assad's government controls most of the major cities, which are located in the western part of the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=U.S.%2C+Allies+Hit+3+Syrian+Sites+Linked+To+Chemical+Weapons+Program&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11662298/u-s-led-coalition-launches-attacks-on-syria","authors":["byline_news_11662298"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_1323","news_19542","news_80","news_20279","news_4768","news_17041"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11662299","label":"source_news_11662298"},"news_11406653":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11406653","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11406653","score":null,"sort":[1492106075000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"misdirected-airstrike-by-u-s-led-coalition-kills-18-allied-fighters-in-syria","title":"'Misdirected' Airstrike by U.S.-Led Coalition Kills 18 Allied Fighters in Syria","publishDate":1492106075,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>An airstrike that was meant to target ISIS in Syria instead killed 18 Syrian Democratic Forces personnel because it was \"misdirected,\" U.S. Central Command said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike Tuesday by an aircraft from the U.S.-led coalition was called in by American allies, the U.S. military says. It adds that the coalition is now studying what went wrong to prevent similar mistakes in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The strike was requested by the partnered forces, who had identified the target location as an ISIS fighting position,\" the command said in a statement about the April 11 attack. \"The target location was actually a forward Syrian Democratic Forces fighting position.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Central Command said the coalition extends its \"deepest condolences\" to members of the SDF and their families, adding that members of that force \"have expressed a strong desire to remain focused on the fight against ISIS despite this tragic incident.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike took place south of Tabqa, Central Command says. That city is roughly 30 miles west of the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of the errant strike comes three weeks after activist groups that monitor Syria said an \"airstrike by U.S.-led coalition forces leveled a school west of Raqqa and killed at least 33 people,\" as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/22/521117273/dozens-of-civilians-killed-near-raqqa-in-airstrike-activists-blame-on-coalition\">NPR's Colin Dwyer reported\u003c/a> at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports of that strike initially came from the group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently and the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. In response, coalition forces said they routinely strike ISIS targets in the area and would review reports of civilian casualties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an update on the U.S.-led coalition's offensive against ISIS in Raqqa, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/NEWS-ARTICLES/News-Article-View/Article/1150671/spokesman-counter-isis-forces-make-gains-in-raqqa-mosul/\">joint task force's spokesman said Wednesday\u003c/a> that the coalition was \"clearing ISIS fighters from the territory in the vicinity of Tabqa.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesman added that ISIS was deploying vehicle bombs, direct and indirect fire, and human shields in the area, according to Central Command.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The strike was requested by America's partners, 'who had identified the target location as an ISIS fighting position,' U.S. Central Command said Thursday.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1492120128,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":324},"headData":{"title":"'Misdirected' Airstrike by U.S.-Led Coalition Kills 18 Allied Fighters in Syria | KQED","description":"The strike was requested by America's partners, 'who had identified the target location as an ISIS fighting position,' U.S. Central Command said Thursday.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11406653 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11406653","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/13/misdirected-airstrike-by-u-s-led-coalition-kills-18-allied-fighters-in-syria/","disqusTitle":"'Misdirected' Airstrike by U.S.-Led Coalition Kills 18 Allied Fighters in Syria","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"http://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Delil Souleiman","nprByline":"Bill Chappell","nprImageAgency":"AFP/Getty Images","nprStoryId":"523746461","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=523746461&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/13/523746461/misdirected-air-strike-by-u-s-led-coalition-kills-18-allies-in-syria?ft=nprml&f=523746461","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 13 Apr 2017 12:18:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:00:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 13 Apr 2017 12:18:08 -0400","path":"/news/11406653/misdirected-airstrike-by-u-s-led-coalition-kills-18-allied-fighters-in-syria","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An airstrike that was meant to target ISIS in Syria instead killed 18 Syrian Democratic Forces personnel because it was \"misdirected,\" U.S. Central Command said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike Tuesday by an aircraft from the U.S.-led coalition was called in by American allies, the U.S. military says. It adds that the coalition is now studying what went wrong to prevent similar mistakes in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The strike was requested by the partnered forces, who had identified the target location as an ISIS fighting position,\" the command said in a statement about the April 11 attack. \"The target location was actually a forward Syrian Democratic Forces fighting position.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Central Command said the coalition extends its \"deepest condolences\" to members of the SDF and their families, adding that members of that force \"have expressed a strong desire to remain focused on the fight against ISIS despite this tragic incident.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike took place south of Tabqa, Central Command says. That city is roughly 30 miles west of the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of the errant strike comes three weeks after activist groups that monitor Syria said an \"airstrike by U.S.-led coalition forces leveled a school west of Raqqa and killed at least 33 people,\" as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/22/521117273/dozens-of-civilians-killed-near-raqqa-in-airstrike-activists-blame-on-coalition\">NPR's Colin Dwyer reported\u003c/a> at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports of that strike initially came from the group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently and the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. In response, coalition forces said they routinely strike ISIS targets in the area and would review reports of civilian casualties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an update on the U.S.-led coalition's offensive against ISIS in Raqqa, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/NEWS-ARTICLES/News-Article-View/Article/1150671/spokesman-counter-isis-forces-make-gains-in-raqqa-mosul/\">joint task force's spokesman said Wednesday\u003c/a> that the coalition was \"clearing ISIS fighters from the territory in the vicinity of Tabqa.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesman added that ISIS was deploying vehicle bombs, direct and indirect fire, and human shields in the area, according to Central Command.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11406653/misdirected-airstrike-by-u-s-led-coalition-kills-18-allied-fighters-in-syria","authors":["byline_news_11406653"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_4768"],"featImg":"news_11406654","label":"source_news_11406653"},"news_11397628":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11397628","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11397628","score":null,"sort":[1491616578000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"limits-of-presidential-power-california-infrastructure-repairs-musician-chuck-prophet-mayor-steve-ly","title":"Limits of Presidential Power, California Infrastructure Repairs, Musician Chuck Prophet, Mayor Steve Ly","publishDate":1491616578,"format":"video","headTitle":"KQED Newsroom | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7052,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cb>Limits of Presidential Power\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nIn the wake of a U.S. missile strike against Syria, UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo discusses the limits of presidential power, the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, and the so-called torture memos he penned during the George W. Bush administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>California Infrastructure Repairs\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nLate Thursday night, Sacramento lawmakers passed a $52 billion state transportation bill to repair the state’s aging roads and bridges. The money will be raised through new taxes and a hike in vehicle registration fees. Guest: KQED reporter Dan Brekke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Elk Grove Mayor Steve Ly\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nThe bedroom community of Elk Grove made history by electing the nation’s first Hmong-American mayor, Steve Ly. Thuy Vu sits down with Mayor Ly to discuss his personal story and what he hopes to accomplish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Musician Chuck Prophet\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco musician Chuck Prophet discusses his new album, \u003ci>Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins\u003c/i>, which takes on topics of gentrification and police use of force. He closes the interview with a performance of a new song, “Bad Year for Rock and Roll.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo on the limits of presidential power, state lawmakers pass massive transportation bill, and musician Chuck Prophet. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1491848846,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":187},"headData":{"title":"Limits of Presidential Power, California Infrastructure Repairs, Musician Chuck Prophet, Mayor Steve Ly | KQED","description":"UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo on the limits of presidential power, state lawmakers pass massive transportation bill, and musician Chuck Prophet. 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Bush administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>California Infrastructure Repairs\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nLate Thursday night, Sacramento lawmakers passed a $52 billion state transportation bill to repair the state’s aging roads and bridges. The money will be raised through new taxes and a hike in vehicle registration fees. Guest: KQED reporter Dan Brekke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Elk Grove Mayor Steve Ly\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nThe bedroom community of Elk Grove made history by electing the nation’s first Hmong-American mayor, Steve Ly. Thuy Vu sits down with Mayor Ly to discuss his personal story and what he hopes to accomplish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Musician Chuck Prophet\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco musician Chuck Prophet discusses his new album, \u003ci>Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins\u003c/i>, which takes on topics of gentrification and police use of force. He closes the interview with a performance of a new song, “Bad Year for Rock and Roll.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11397628/limits-of-presidential-power-california-infrastructure-repairs-musician-chuck-prophet-mayor-steve-ly","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_7052"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20777","news_20632","news_20778","news_4593","news_19177","news_20562","news_4768","news_20203"],"featImg":"news_11397629","label":"news_7052"},"news_11395686":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11395686","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11395686","score":null,"sort":[1491546600000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"u-s-launches-airstrikes-against-syria-after-chemical-attack","title":"Trump Orders Syria Airstrikes After 'Assad Choked Out the Lives' of Civilians","publishDate":1491546600,"format":"video","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 11:30 p.m. PST\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has launched airstrikes in Syria in response to deadly chemical attacks allegedly ordered by the country's president, Bashar al-Assad, against his own people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tonight I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched,\" the president announced Thursday night from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., where he is meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. \"It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AmDeWdQqpM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to launch airstrikes Thursday evening was a departure for Trump, who has been slow to embrace an interventionist foreign policy. The chemical attack has been seen as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/04/05/522704455/after-syria-gas-attack-world-awaits-what-kind-of-leader-trump-will-be\">key test of Trump's leadership\u003c/a> on the world stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. fired 59 Tomahawk missiles from the USS Porter and USS Ross destroyers in the Eastern Mediterranean against the Shayrat air base, where the U.S. says the planes that carried out a chemical weapons attack originated. The missiles targeted aircraft and aircraft shelters, ammunition, air defense systems and radars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11395687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/170309-n-ji086-303_custom-6532fca314463715d5061f8cf900b4a0b57ebcd4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) transits the Mediterranean Sea on March 9, 2017. The United States launched dozens of Tomahawk missiles against a single site in Syria, according to a Pentagon official.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11395687\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) transits the Mediterranean Sea on March 9, 2017. The United States launched dozens of Tomahawk missiles against a single site in Syria, according to a Pentagon official. \u003ccite>(Seaman Ford Williams/U.S. Navy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. officials said planners did everything possible to avoid civilian casualties and are still doing battle damage assessment to determine the exact results of the raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moscow says strike violates international law\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russia was warned in multiple conversations that this air base was going to be targeted, officials said. There were Russians at the base. Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the idea that Assad was behind the attacks simply \"groundless accusations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in his regular Friday morning briefing, said the U.S. strike constituted \"aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin believed the strike was based on a \"made-up pretext\" to distract attention from civilian deaths in Iraq, an apparent reference to U.S. airstrikes in Mosul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Trump said Thursday night that \"there can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and ignored the urging of the U.N. Security Council.\" He concluded his statement by saying:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Tonight I call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria and also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types. We ask for God's wisdom as we face the challenge of our very troubled world. We pray for the lives of the wounded and for the souls of those who passed. And we hope that as long as America stands for justice, that peace and harmony will, in the end, prevail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The chemical attacks earlier this week killed more than 100 Syrians, including many children. On Wednesday, Trump said that the attacks \"crossed a lot of lines for me\" and hinted that he might pursue some sort of military action in response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters in Florida after the president spoke that they had a \"very high level of confidence that the attacks were carried out under aircraft under the direction of [Assad's] regime\" and a \"very high confidence that the attacks involved the use of sarin nerve gas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/map-syria-airstrike.png\" alt=\"map-syria-airstrike\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11395848\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/map-syria-airstrike.png 450w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/map-syria-airstrike-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/map-syria-airstrike-240x180.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/map-syria-airstrike-375x282.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster said at the briefing that the military planners took \"great pains\" to avoid risk to \"third country nationals at that airport — I think you read Russians from that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"We weighed the risk associated with any military action, but we weighed that against the risk of inaction ... which is the risk of [these] continued egregious, inhumane attacks on innocent civilians with chemical weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were measures put in place to avoid hitting what we believe is a storage of sarin ... [so] that it would not be ignited and cause a hazard to civilians or anyone else.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In his initial response to the Syrian attacks on Tuesday, Trump cast blame on former President Barack Obama for failing to act enough on the situation and engaging after Assad first crossed the \"red line\" Obama drew following Assad's use of chemical weapons in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as NPR's Tamara Keith \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/04/04/522627064/on-the-record-president-trump-vs-private-citizen-trump-on-syria\">noted\u003c/a>, Trump himself had argued then as a private citizen that the U.S. should not become engaged in the conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the president's full remarks from Thursday night:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"On Tuesday Syrian President Bashar al-Assad launched a horrible chemical attack on innocent civilians using a deadly nerve agent. Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered at this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror. Tonight I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched. It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and ignored the urging of the U.N. Security Council. Numerous previous attempts at changing Assad's behavior have all failed, and failed very dramatically. As a result, the refugee crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilize, threatening the United States and its allies. Tonight I call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria and also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types. We ask for God's wisdom as we face the challenge of our very troubled world. We pray for the lives of the wounded and for the souls of those who passed. And we hope that as long as America stands for justice, that peace and harmony will, in the end, prevail. Good night and God bless America and the entire world.\"'\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Congressional reaction is mixed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said the president needs to coordinate any future action with Congress:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"This strike will not hasten an end to the Assad regime, but it may deter its further use of chemical weapons. Nevertheless. this missile strike and the military action of our forces already in Syria have yet to be authorized by Congress. I will be reintroducing an authorization for use of military force against ISIS and al-Qaida when Congress returns to session. Congress cannot abdicate its responsibility any longer and should vote on any use of force not made in self-defense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., agreed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Assad was warned, repeatedly, by the U.S. and the U.N. that the intentional targeting of innocent men, women and children is intolerable. Now Assad has been caught red-handed carrying out another abhorrent chemical attack, and the administration has taken a measured response. Moving ahead, the administration must work with Congress and lay out clear policy goals for Syria and the region.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Trump+Orders+Syria+Airstrikes+After+%27Assad+Choked+Out+The+Lives%27+Of+Civilians&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Two U.S. warships in the Eastern Mediterranean fired 59 missiles Thursday, targeting an airbase that the president said was used to launch the sarin attack this week.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1491588606,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1236},"headData":{"title":"Trump Orders Syria Airstrikes After 'Assad Choked Out the Lives' of Civilians | KQED","description":"Two U.S. warships in the Eastern Mediterranean fired 59 missiles Thursday, targeting an airbase that the president said was used to launch the sarin attack this week.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11395686 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11395686","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/06/u-s-launches-airstrikes-against-syria-after-chemical-attack/","disqusTitle":"Trump Orders Syria Airstrikes After 'Assad Choked Out the Lives' of Civilians","videoEmbed":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGYZHtfJEYg","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"http://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Seaman Ford Williams","nprByline":"Tom Bowman","nprImageAgency":"U.S. Navy","nprStoryId":"522948481","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=522948481&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/2017/04/06/522948481/u-s-launches-airstrikes-against-syria-after-chemical-attack?ft=nprml&f=522948481","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 07 Apr 2017 02:35:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 06 Apr 2017 21:37:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 07 Apr 2017 02:35:51 -0400","path":"/news/11395686/u-s-launches-airstrikes-against-syria-after-chemical-attack","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 11:30 p.m. PST\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has launched airstrikes in Syria in response to deadly chemical attacks allegedly ordered by the country's president, Bashar al-Assad, against his own people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tonight I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched,\" the president announced Thursday night from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., where he is meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. \"It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4AmDeWdQqpM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4AmDeWdQqpM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The decision to launch airstrikes Thursday evening was a departure for Trump, who has been slow to embrace an interventionist foreign policy. The chemical attack has been seen as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/04/05/522704455/after-syria-gas-attack-world-awaits-what-kind-of-leader-trump-will-be\">key test of Trump's leadership\u003c/a> on the world stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. fired 59 Tomahawk missiles from the USS Porter and USS Ross destroyers in the Eastern Mediterranean against the Shayrat air base, where the U.S. says the planes that carried out a chemical weapons attack originated. The missiles targeted aircraft and aircraft shelters, ammunition, air defense systems and radars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11395687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/170309-n-ji086-303_custom-6532fca314463715d5061f8cf900b4a0b57ebcd4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) transits the Mediterranean Sea on March 9, 2017. The United States launched dozens of Tomahawk missiles against a single site in Syria, according to a Pentagon official.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11395687\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) transits the Mediterranean Sea on March 9, 2017. The United States launched dozens of Tomahawk missiles against a single site in Syria, according to a Pentagon official. \u003ccite>(Seaman Ford Williams/U.S. Navy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. officials said planners did everything possible to avoid civilian casualties and are still doing battle damage assessment to determine the exact results of the raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moscow says strike violates international law\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russia was warned in multiple conversations that this air base was going to be targeted, officials said. There were Russians at the base. Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the idea that Assad was behind the attacks simply \"groundless accusations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in his regular Friday morning briefing, said the U.S. strike constituted \"aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin believed the strike was based on a \"made-up pretext\" to distract attention from civilian deaths in Iraq, an apparent reference to U.S. airstrikes in Mosul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Trump said Thursday night that \"there can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and ignored the urging of the U.N. Security Council.\" He concluded his statement by saying:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Tonight I call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria and also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types. We ask for God's wisdom as we face the challenge of our very troubled world. We pray for the lives of the wounded and for the souls of those who passed. And we hope that as long as America stands for justice, that peace and harmony will, in the end, prevail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The chemical attacks earlier this week killed more than 100 Syrians, including many children. On Wednesday, Trump said that the attacks \"crossed a lot of lines for me\" and hinted that he might pursue some sort of military action in response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters in Florida after the president spoke that they had a \"very high level of confidence that the attacks were carried out under aircraft under the direction of [Assad's] regime\" and a \"very high confidence that the attacks involved the use of sarin nerve gas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/map-syria-airstrike.png\" alt=\"map-syria-airstrike\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11395848\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/map-syria-airstrike.png 450w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/map-syria-airstrike-160x120.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/map-syria-airstrike-240x180.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/map-syria-airstrike-375x282.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster said at the briefing that the military planners took \"great pains\" to avoid risk to \"third country nationals at that airport — I think you read Russians from that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"We weighed the risk associated with any military action, but we weighed that against the risk of inaction ... which is the risk of [these] continued egregious, inhumane attacks on innocent civilians with chemical weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were measures put in place to avoid hitting what we believe is a storage of sarin ... [so] that it would not be ignited and cause a hazard to civilians or anyone else.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In his initial response to the Syrian attacks on Tuesday, Trump cast blame on former President Barack Obama for failing to act enough on the situation and engaging after Assad first crossed the \"red line\" Obama drew following Assad's use of chemical weapons in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as NPR's Tamara Keith \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/04/04/522627064/on-the-record-president-trump-vs-private-citizen-trump-on-syria\">noted\u003c/a>, Trump himself had argued then as a private citizen that the U.S. should not become engaged in the conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the president's full remarks from Thursday night:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"On Tuesday Syrian President Bashar al-Assad launched a horrible chemical attack on innocent civilians using a deadly nerve agent. Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered at this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror. Tonight I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched. It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and ignored the urging of the U.N. Security Council. Numerous previous attempts at changing Assad's behavior have all failed, and failed very dramatically. As a result, the refugee crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilize, threatening the United States and its allies. Tonight I call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria and also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types. We ask for God's wisdom as we face the challenge of our very troubled world. We pray for the lives of the wounded and for the souls of those who passed. And we hope that as long as America stands for justice, that peace and harmony will, in the end, prevail. Good night and God bless America and the entire world.\"'\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Congressional reaction is mixed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said the president needs to coordinate any future action with Congress:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"This strike will not hasten an end to the Assad regime, but it may deter its further use of chemical weapons. Nevertheless. this missile strike and the military action of our forces already in Syria have yet to be authorized by Congress. I will be reintroducing an authorization for use of military force against ISIS and al-Qaida when Congress returns to session. Congress cannot abdicate its responsibility any longer and should vote on any use of force not made in self-defense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., agreed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Assad was warned, repeatedly, by the U.S. and the U.N. that the intentional targeting of innocent men, women and children is intolerable. Now Assad has been caught red-handed carrying out another abhorrent chemical attack, and the administration has taken a measured response. Moving ahead, the administration must work with Congress and lay out clear policy goals for Syria and the region.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Trump+Orders+Syria+Airstrikes+After+%27Assad+Choked+Out+The+Lives%27+Of+Civilians&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11395686/u-s-launches-airstrikes-against-syria-after-chemical-attack","authors":["byline_news_11395686"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_1323","news_19542","news_4768"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11395768","label":"source_news_11395686"},"news_11299682":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11299682","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11299682","score":null,"sort":[1486414618000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"uprooted-by-war-syrian-family-grows-new-community-in-california","title":"Uprooted by War, Syrian Family Grows New Community in California","publishDate":1486414618,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Mohammad Aref Rawoas shows off his family’s garden in East Oakland. He ignores the trucks that roll by just over his chain-link fence and points out a lemon tree, an apricot tree and a fig tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A grapevine snakes along the fence and there are also peas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot growing in a compact area that fits roughly two cars. This urban oasis is nothing compared to the 10-acre farm the family had in Syria, where they grew over 100 fruit trees, Rawoas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rawoas, his wife Rawaa Kasedah and their four children came to the U.S. as refugees from Syria almost two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Comfortable Life, Disrupted\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Syria, Rawoas owned and managed a clothing factory and the family had a comfortable life they never before considered leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the fighting from the civil war in Syria got closer, it became too dangerous for the kids to go to school. Kasedah says the violence severely stressed the children, who now range in age from 11 to 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All they talked about was war: 'I saw someone's leg cut off and I saw a body part here and there,' \" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the fighting reached Rawoas' factory, he shut it down. All 50 of his employees lost their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kasedah says they tolerated the war for nearly a year, but then the fighting came too close to their home in a Damascus suburb. At one point, two tanks faced off in front of the Rawoas family house. The building shook every time one fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/306030064\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hardest day was the day I left my home,\" Kasedah says. \"That day, we didn't know who was bombing or dropping rockets. All of the bombing was right over my house. The electricity went out, and there was no place safe since my whole house is windows. I was scared. We all slept in a small hallway between the rooms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family of six spent the last night in their home on a foam mattress in the dark, crying, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, they fled their home of eight years. Kasedah wept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My husband said, 'You sound like you've lost a child the way you're crying,' \" she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In Jordan, in Limbo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After crossing the border to Jordan, the family was able to register as refugees with the United Nations. Luckily, they rented a house in Jordan, rather than living in the challenging circumstances of a refugee camp. Kasedah felt this was critical to the safety of her children, especially her teenage daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the mother describes this period of waiting as one of the hardest times the family faced. As refugees, it was hard to find work. Every time the kids went back to school, it was unclear if they’d finish the term. Rawoas and Kasedah worried that any misstep could send them all back to Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We've come to America, and we've lived in America, and eaten its food and seen its people. We don’t consider ourselves guests or refugees. I feel [America's] my country.'\u003ccite>Mohammad Aref Rawoas\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A year after crossing the border, though, the family learned they’d be resettled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They just told us you are eligible to immigrate,\" Kasedah remembers. \"We did the first interview, we said, where will we go? They said, 'We still don't know.' We were happy, because we just wanted a way out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their way out was to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family's waiting period was punctuated by daylong interviews with a variety of government officials every two-three months. Kasedah says the family even developed a routine around the interviews, since they were so frequent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew that if I had an interview that day, I was leaving at eight. I would not be home until the evening. So I would pack sandwiches for the kids,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family was interviewed together and separately. Sometimes Rawoas, the father, would be interviewed for four hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"20VE5bD5raOkypUl65bE7g0TCR811Eqq\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were fingerprints, photos, iris scans and medical exams. The family describes an\u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/588a14fc4\" target=\"_blank\"> intensive screening process\u003c/a>, involving eight federal U.S. agencies, six security databases and five separate background checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of one interview day, an official told the family they had only a small chance of being accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But three years after leaving Syria, the family finally boarded a plane to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New Home in America\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the beginning, the transition to the U.S. was incredibly difficult. Kasedah wasn't used to feeling so helpless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I first came, for the first five months I cried every day because I was so used to doing everything for my kids myself,\" she says. Kasedah didn't speak English and didn't know where to go for simple resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the help of friends, their community and resettlement agencies, however, the family found their footing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11299911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11299911\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rawaa Kasedah hopes to teach Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant that will feature dishes like mujaddara, shown here. It's a classic meal that consists of lentils, bulgur, and fried onions. Kasedah accompanies the dish with baba ganoush, salad, yogurt, and homemade pickles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rawaa Kasedah hopes to teach Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant that will feature dishes like mujaddara, shown here. It's a classic meal that consists of lentils, bulgur and fried onions. Kasedah accompanies the dish with baba ganoush, salad, yogurt and homemade pickles. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, after two years in Oakland, Kasedah and Rawoas are enrolled in English classes. Rawoas works as a bus driver for kids with disabilities, and for the ride-hailing company Uber. Kasedah hopes to launch Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant. The older children, both daughters go to college, one working as a dental assistant and the other as a barista. One volunteers with newly arrived refugees. The two younger children study and play sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Desire to Give Back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rawoas feels gratitude for his new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've come to America, and we've lived in America, and eaten its food and seen its people,\" he says. \"We don't consider ourselves guests or refugees. I feel [America's] my country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rawoas feels this so strongly that he’d fight for the United States. When his eldest daughter told him that she saw recruiters for the U.S. military at her college campus, Rawoas told her he wanted to join. At the time, he didn't yet have his green card, which disqualified him from joining. When he got a green card, he went back to the recruiter. This time, he was turned down for age. He's almost 50 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's still thinking about other ways to serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"FAow4g7RW9440fHtkbR1GNq1N1uivDmh\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would make me really happy to work for the government or join the police because I really feel like I want to serve this country since we've gotten so much,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rawoas family came here when President Obama was in office, but now that President Trump is \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/01/31/512439121/trumps-executive-order-on-immigration-annotated\" target=\"_blank\">restricting refugees from coming in\u003c/a>, they feel just a little less welcome. And they empathize with others in the position in which they once were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where are people supposed to go?\" Rawoas asks. \"They will either stay inside [Syria] and die, or they will try to get out and flee. If they don't die inside, they'll die at sea.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were joyful that doors opened for us,\" he says. \"But now, for many people, life has become dark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those people is Kasedah's brother. He's been approved to come to the United States and the Rawoases are his sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he does not yet have a plane ticket, given the uncertainty surrounding the executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His suitcases in Jordan are zipped up. He's just waiting for the flight reservation,\" Kasedah says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the family will just have to wait and hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lubna Takruri contributed translation services to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As a family of Syrian refugees makes a home in East Oakland, they empathize with others waiting in limbo.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1486420231,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":50,"wordCount":1349},"headData":{"title":"Uprooted by War, Syrian Family Grows New Community in California | KQED","description":"As a family of Syrian refugees makes a home in East Oakland, they empathize with others waiting in limbo.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11299682 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11299682","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/06/uprooted-by-war-syrian-family-grows-new-community-in-california/","disqusTitle":"Uprooted by War, Syrian Family Grows New Community in California","path":"/news/11299682/uprooted-by-war-syrian-family-grows-new-community-in-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Mohammad Aref Rawoas shows off his family’s garden in East Oakland. He ignores the trucks that roll by just over his chain-link fence and points out a lemon tree, an apricot tree and a fig tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A grapevine snakes along the fence and there are also peas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot growing in a compact area that fits roughly two cars. This urban oasis is nothing compared to the 10-acre farm the family had in Syria, where they grew over 100 fruit trees, Rawoas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rawoas, his wife Rawaa Kasedah and their four children came to the U.S. as refugees from Syria almost two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Comfortable Life, Disrupted\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Syria, Rawoas owned and managed a clothing factory and the family had a comfortable life they never before considered leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the fighting from the civil war in Syria got closer, it became too dangerous for the kids to go to school. Kasedah says the violence severely stressed the children, who now range in age from 11 to 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All they talked about was war: 'I saw someone's leg cut off and I saw a body part here and there,' \" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the fighting reached Rawoas' factory, he shut it down. All 50 of his employees lost their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kasedah says they tolerated the war for nearly a year, but then the fighting came too close to their home in a Damascus suburb. At one point, two tanks faced off in front of the Rawoas family house. The building shook every time one fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='450'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/306030064&visual=true&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/306030064'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hardest day was the day I left my home,\" Kasedah says. \"That day, we didn't know who was bombing or dropping rockets. All of the bombing was right over my house. The electricity went out, and there was no place safe since my whole house is windows. I was scared. We all slept in a small hallway between the rooms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family of six spent the last night in their home on a foam mattress in the dark, crying, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, they fled their home of eight years. Kasedah wept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My husband said, 'You sound like you've lost a child the way you're crying,' \" she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In Jordan, in Limbo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After crossing the border to Jordan, the family was able to register as refugees with the United Nations. Luckily, they rented a house in Jordan, rather than living in the challenging circumstances of a refugee camp. Kasedah felt this was critical to the safety of her children, especially her teenage daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the mother describes this period of waiting as one of the hardest times the family faced. As refugees, it was hard to find work. Every time the kids went back to school, it was unclear if they’d finish the term. Rawoas and Kasedah worried that any misstep could send them all back to Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We've come to America, and we've lived in America, and eaten its food and seen its people. We don’t consider ourselves guests or refugees. I feel [America's] my country.'\u003ccite>Mohammad Aref Rawoas\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A year after crossing the border, though, the family learned they’d be resettled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They just told us you are eligible to immigrate,\" Kasedah remembers. \"We did the first interview, we said, where will we go? They said, 'We still don't know.' We were happy, because we just wanted a way out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their way out was to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family's waiting period was punctuated by daylong interviews with a variety of government officials every two-three months. Kasedah says the family even developed a routine around the interviews, since they were so frequent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew that if I had an interview that day, I was leaving at eight. I would not be home until the evening. So I would pack sandwiches for the kids,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family was interviewed together and separately. Sometimes Rawoas, the father, would be interviewed for four hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were fingerprints, photos, iris scans and medical exams. The family describes an\u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/588a14fc4\" target=\"_blank\"> intensive screening process\u003c/a>, involving eight federal U.S. agencies, six security databases and five separate background checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of one interview day, an official told the family they had only a small chance of being accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But three years after leaving Syria, the family finally boarded a plane to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New Home in America\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the beginning, the transition to the U.S. was incredibly difficult. Kasedah wasn't used to feeling so helpless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I first came, for the first five months I cried every day because I was so used to doing everything for my kids myself,\" she says. Kasedah didn't speak English and didn't know where to go for simple resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the help of friends, their community and resettlement agencies, however, the family found their footing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11299911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11299911\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rawaa Kasedah hopes to teach Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant that will feature dishes like mujaddara, shown here. It's a classic meal that consists of lentils, bulgur, and fried onions. Kasedah accompanies the dish with baba ganoush, salad, yogurt, and homemade pickles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rawaa Kasedah hopes to teach Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant that will feature dishes like mujaddara, shown here. It's a classic meal that consists of lentils, bulgur and fried onions. Kasedah accompanies the dish with baba ganoush, salad, yogurt and homemade pickles. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, after two years in Oakland, Kasedah and Rawoas are enrolled in English classes. Rawoas works as a bus driver for kids with disabilities, and for the ride-hailing company Uber. Kasedah hopes to launch Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant. The older children, both daughters go to college, one working as a dental assistant and the other as a barista. One volunteers with newly arrived refugees. The two younger children study and play sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Desire to Give Back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rawoas feels gratitude for his new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've come to America, and we've lived in America, and eaten its food and seen its people,\" he says. \"We don't consider ourselves guests or refugees. I feel [America's] my country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rawoas feels this so strongly that he’d fight for the United States. When his eldest daughter told him that she saw recruiters for the U.S. military at her college campus, Rawoas told her he wanted to join. At the time, he didn't yet have his green card, which disqualified him from joining. When he got a green card, he went back to the recruiter. This time, he was turned down for age. He's almost 50 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's still thinking about other ways to serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would make me really happy to work for the government or join the police because I really feel like I want to serve this country since we've gotten so much,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rawoas family came here when President Obama was in office, but now that President Trump is \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/01/31/512439121/trumps-executive-order-on-immigration-annotated\" target=\"_blank\">restricting refugees from coming in\u003c/a>, they feel just a little less welcome. And they empathize with others in the position in which they once were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where are people supposed to go?\" Rawoas asks. \"They will either stay inside [Syria] and die, or they will try to get out and flee. If they don't die inside, they'll die at sea.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were joyful that doors opened for us,\" he says. \"But now, for many people, life has become dark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those people is Kasedah's brother. He's been approved to come to the United States and the Rawoases are his sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he does not yet have a plane ticket, given the uncertainty surrounding the executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His suitcases in Jordan are zipped up. He's just waiting for the flight reservation,\" Kasedah says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the family will just have to wait and hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lubna Takruri contributed translation services to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11299682/uprooted-by-war-syrian-family-grows-new-community-in-california","authors":["8648"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18352","news_18066","news_18","news_19006","news_4768","news_19005","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11299684","label":"news_72"},"news_11079532":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11079532","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11079532","score":null,"sort":[1473353049000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"watch-in-morning-interview-gary-johnson-asks-what-is-aleppo","title":"WATCH: In Morning Interview, Gary Johnson Asks 'What Is Aleppo?'","publishDate":1473353049,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson asked a television interviewer Thursday, \"What is Aleppo?\" betraying a lack of interest or even superficial knowledge of the civil war in Syria that's been raging for more than five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question came \u003ca href=\"http://on.msnbc.com/2cmY7LZ\" target=\"_blank\">during an interview\u003c/a> on MSNBC's \"Morning Joe.\" Panelist Mike Barnicle asked the two-time libertarian nominee and former governor of New Mexico, \"What would you do if you were elected, about Aleppo?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/773852432514162688\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Barnicle thought Johnson was joking — replying with \"you're kidding\" — when Johnson didn't recognize the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the beginning of the exchange:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>BARNICLE: What would you do if you were elected, about Aleppo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GARY JOHNSON: About?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARNICLE: Aleppo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JOHNSON: And what is Aleppo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARNICLE: You're kidding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JOHNSON: No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARNICLE: Aleppo is in Syria. It's the – it's the epicenter of the refugee crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JOHNSON: Okay, got it. Got it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARNICLE: Okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Aleppo was Syria's largest city before the war and is a central battleground in the fight between government forces and the opposition. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/18/490461992/a-wounded-child-in-aleppo-silent-and-still-shocks-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">iconic photo\u003c/a> of five-year-old bombing victim Omran Daqneesh, widely seen on TV and newspapers last month, was taken in Aleppo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Barnicle explained, \"Aleppo is in Syria. It's the epicenter of the refugee crisis,\" Johnson tried to regroup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"OK. Got it,\" Johnson said, falling back on libertarian principles of limited foreign engagement. \"Well, with regard to Syria, I do think that it's a mess. And I think the only way that we deal with Syria is to join hands with Russia to diplomatically bring that at an end. But when we've aligned ourselves with, when we've supported the opposition, the Free Syrian Army, the Free Syrian Army is also coupled with the Islamists, and then the fact that we're also supporting the Kurds. And this is – it's just a mess,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do understand Aleppo,\" he continued later in the interview. \"And I understand the crisis that is going on. But when we involve ourselves militarily, when we involve ourselves in these humanitarian issues, we end up with a situation that in most cases is not better and in many cases ends up being worse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson also suggested that the war in Syria is the result of a U.S.-backed effort at regime change. While President Obama argues that Syrian President Bashar Assad should be removed from power through diplomatic means, the administration has avoided military action directed at the regime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson's later tried to explain: \"This morning, I began my day by setting aside any doubt that I'm human. Yes, I understand the dynamics of the Syrian conflict — I talk about them every day,\" Johnson said in a statement, \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/gary-johnson-explains-aleppo-227878#ixzz4Jfr96unY\" target=\"_blank\">as reported by Politico\u003c/a>. \"But hit with 'What about Aleppo?' I immediately was thinking about an acronym, not the Syrian conflict. I blanked. It happens, and it will happen again during the course of this campaign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson also acknowledged the interview was a black eye for his campaign, which is currently drawing support from nine percent of the public, according to an average of polls compiled by Real Clear Politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel horrible,\" Johnson told Mark Halperin of Bloomberg Politics. \"I have to get smarter, and that's just part of the process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton briefly addressed the flub Thursday morning in response to a question from a reporter. \"Well, you can look at the map and find Aleppo,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Aleppo\" quickly trended nationally on Twitter, with many criticizing the candidate's misstep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein have attracted unusual attention for third-party candidates this year, as many voters seek an alternative to the Republican and Democratic standard-bearers, both of whom are saddled with high unfavorable ratings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein also garnered headlines this week while taking part in a demonstration against a controversial oil pipeline in North Dakota. The local sheriff says Stein could face criminal charges for trespassing and spray-painting construction equipment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=WATCH%3A+In+Morning+Interview%2C+Gary+Johnson+Asks+%27What+Is+Aleppo%3F%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In response to the question \"What would you do if you were elected about Aleppo?\" Johnson did not recognize the war-torn Syrian city that has been a center of the refugee crisis.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1473357309,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":691},"headData":{"title":"WATCH: In Morning Interview, Gary Johnson Asks 'What Is Aleppo?' | KQED","description":"In response to the question "What would you do if you were elected about Aleppo?" 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