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
Rebel commander: Turkish artillery strikes ‘have not and will not’ stop SDF advance to Azaz
AMMAN: The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are gaining ground […]
Side campaign in north Aleppo raises fears of SDF linking Kobani to Afrin
AMMAN: The Syrian Democratic Forces are taking advantage of recent […]
‘The regime is approaching’: Fear along border as north Latakia civilians run out of options
AMMAN: In the wake of recent regime advances in northern […]
Yarmouk camp water cutoff in 16th month
When the Islamic State took over the Yarmouk camp in […]
When is a ceasefire not a ceasefire? ‘I am not a terrorist…I am hungry’
Syria Direct news analysis AMMAN: Once a mountain resort town […]
Every child left behind in the Islamic State’s new elementary schools
AMMAN: The Islamic State opened elementary schools in the eastern […]
US policy in Syria ‘to systemically bleed Iran, Hezbollah’
“Many in DC claim that the US administration has no […]
Naame Shaam: Iran militarily occupying Syria, ‘Assad doesn’t matter’
In the spring of 2014, a handful of Syrian, Lebanese […]
ICG’s Noah Bonsey: ‘This is not a war that the rest of the world can safely allow to play itself out’
Now in its fifth year, with no serious efforts underway […]