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Back in February, Dylan went to the Philippines for what he thought would be a great Chinese Lunar New Year vacation. Then he found himself held hostage in a gang-run scamming compound. Here’s one man’s story about getting out and what the Philippines is doing to shut these operations down.

Ten years after two US officials brokered a secret deal with Cuba, relations between Havana and Washington remain strained, marked by lingering tensions and limited progress toward normalization. The World’s Host Marco Werman speaks with former top national security officials Ben Rhodes and Ricardo Zúñiga about how the Cuba deal came about and why it ultimately collapsed.

The World’s Shirin Jaafari speaks with Syrian Democratic Forces commander General Mazloum Abdi in an exclusive interview about what’s next for the Kurdish group as Syria transitions into post-Assad rule.

The Golan Heights is recognized by the international community — except the US and Israel — as Israeli-occupied territory captured from Syria during the 1967 war. The World’s Host Marco Werman speaks with Joshua Landis, from the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, about the significance of this contentious area.

Sednaya prison in Damascus was once synonymous with death and disappearance. Yet over the past week, thousands of families rushed to the prison in the hope of finding their missing loved ones. Many left with no answer.