Devastation in Syria and Yemen

Pod Save the World

Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Tommy talks with VICE on HBO correspondent Isobel Yeung about her recent reporting trips to Raqqa, Syria and Yemen. Isobel talks about what it was like to interview two of ISIS's most brutal foreign fighters and to witness heroic efforts by average citizens to rebuild the city and find loved ones taken by ISIS.

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