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
‘I no longer have confidence in the Syrian army’: With rebels at their doorstep, some west Aleppans abandon homes
AMMAN: When a cacophony of mortars and gunfire erupted just […]
Once a haven for the internally displaced in west Aleppo, new wave of airstrikes drives out Atareb residents; ‘no place is safe around here’
AMMAN: Residents of a west Aleppo town known for hosting […]
After 4 years in prison, recently released Damascene says ‘the vibrancy the city once had is no longer there’
It was 3am when Ayham a-Saad, an architect from Damascus, […]
Hoping to break into encircled east Aleppo, rebels surprise with attack from southwest
AMMAN: Regime planes pounded rebel positions in south Aleppo on […]
50,000 people with partial hospital access in latest airstrike on Aleppo medical infrastructure
A damaged room in Atareb hospital. Photo courtesy of Atareb […]
Missiles, barrel bombs destroy coroner’s office in latest hit on Aleppo’s medical infrastructure
Mohammed Kahil, director of the east Aleppo Coroner’s Office. Photo […]
With breadbasket gone, will residents of Darayya ‘kneel or starve’?
Regime forces took half a square kilometer of Darayya’s farmland […]
Air strikes blow up fuel trucks at Aleppo-Idlib checkpoint
Idlib Civil Defense team battles fuel truck fire caused by […]
After two arrests, a son transformed joins Syria’s rebels
Um Joseph was sitting at home in regime-controlled Hama city […]
Sick of ‘the stench of trash’, residents of Barzeh urge local council, FSA to resume their work
Piles of uncollected trash line the streets of the northeastern, […]