Bio
Kristen Demilio
Kristen Gillespie Demilio has more than 10 years of experience reporting from the Middle East while based in Amman. She regularly contributed to news outlets including CBS News Radio, NPR, The Jerusalem Report and PBS and is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism as well as the Institut Français des Etudes Arabes in Damascus.
Latest Articles
Conjoined twins die in Damascus despite multiple international offers to save them
Moath and Nawras died in a Damascus hospital early Wednesday […]
‘We aren’t trained doctors’: 2 dentists and a veterinarian left to treat Madaya’s 40,000 citizens
Madaya and its 40,000 people are among an estimated one million […]
Bowing to ‘popular demand,’ Failaq a-Rahman closes extra-judicial security branches, hands over authority to civilian court
Failaq a-Rahman announced last week that it would close down […]
In an encircled Damascus suburb, rebels take aim at regime checkpoint as civilians pay the price.
Last Tuesday a small contingent of rebels opened fire on […]
Conjoined twins health ‘deteriorating’ as they await approval to leave Syria for separation surgery
On Friday, August 12, the Red Crescent evacuated a pair […]
Life, interrupted: The story of 3 college friends and where they ended up
Adnan, Rami and Hussam were students at the University of […]
Now that a regime transport helicopter has been repurposed to ‘drop 6 barrel bombs at once,’ is this the new normal?
On July 26, a Soviet-era Mi-8 transport helicopter dropped six […]
Russia blanket bombs town near crash site as residents receive text message demanding return of crew remains: ‘Help us if you do not want pain’
AMMAN: Russian planes have pounded the east Idlib town where […]
The woman in need of a kidney and the man willing to sell one to her: ‘I’m at the end of the line’
Regime forces burst into a village in the east Homs […]
In a forgotten corner of Syria, camp residents cling to life: ‘We need everything’
AMMAN: Umm Raed has a lot on her mind. She […]