How did a peaceful democratic uprising morph into a civil conflict and regional proxy war? Andrew Tabler, foremost expert on Syria and fellow in the Program on Arab Politics at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, talks with host Carol Castiel and Begum Ersoz, video journalist in VOA’s Turkish Service about the state of play in Syria. He says a combination of Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad’s brutality, US reticence to forcefully back the rebel opposition under the Obama Administration, and Iran and Russia’s timely interventions on behalf of Assad, contributed to Syria’s collapse, which has spawned the largest refugee crisis since World War II.

How did a peaceful democratic uprising morph into a civil conflict and regional proxy war? Andrew Tabler, foremost expert on Syria and fellow in the Program on Arab Politics at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, talks with host Carol Castiel and Begum Ersoz, video journalist in VOA’s Turkish Service about the state of play in Syria. He says a combination of Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad’s brutality, US reticence to forcefully back the rebel opposition under the Obama Administration, and Iran and Russia’s timely interventions on behalf of Assad, contributed to Syria’s collapse, which has spawned the largest refugee crisis since World War II.

On the Science Edition of Press Conference USA, Rick Pantaleo and his guests, Dr. Bertalan Mesko (Mesh-co) of the Medical Futurist Institute and Dr. Kaveh Safavi of the global consulting firm, Accenture, will examine the impact of modern technology on medicine and healthcare, now and in the future.

On the Science Edition of Press Conference USA, Rick Pantaleo and his guests, Dr. Bertalan Mesko (Mesh-co) of the Medical Futurist Institute and Dr. Kaveh Safavi of the global consulting firm, Accenture, will examine the impact of modern technology on medicine and healthcare, now and in the future.