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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): And we turn to another deadly conflict in the Middle East, the Syrian civil war. According to one activist group, the battle between government forces and rebels has claimed the lives of more than 37,000 people.
Margaret Warner is on a reporting trip to the region filing stories for our website and our broadcast. Tonight, she gets an inside look at the opposition in Syria and Turkey's role supporting it.
MARGARET WARNER (Newshour): It was a reunion six years in the making. Thirty-three-year-old Syrian Oubab Khalil embraced his younger brothers last week on a street corner in the Turkish town of Rehanle, just three miles from the Syrian border.
Oubab left Syria in 2006, after his civil society activities drew a warning from President Bashar al-Assad's government.
But from his comfortable life in Dallas, he recently engineered his younger brother's escape. En route to their meeting, he spoke of his mixed feelings at having to meet them in Turkey.
OUBAB KHALIL, Syria: Very excited to see them, but at the same time, I cannot take, like, the back images that we're meeting in a foreign country, in a neighbor country, not meeting at home.
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