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Ahmad's clothes she breaks down. in the room next door his father shows us his photos. tears he can't cry in front of his wife. they did everything together. a father-son team documenting their nation's pain. now directly a part of it. the sluggish summer pace of life as we drive through idlib province seems to belie the looming violence. it's the last remaining main rebel stronghold. turkey, russia, and iran have been negotiating to ostensibly come to some sort of agreement, to prevent a total massacre here by the syrian regime and its russian backers. turkey has military observation posts in...

Drive to the nuclear site. arriving at punggye-ri was surreal. the buildings were log cabins, almost like a summer camp. definitely not what i expected. we had to carry our gear and hike for what felt like ages up steep ravines to get to observation posts built specifically for us. we visited tunnel after tunnel. the same tunnels north korea has used to conduct six nuclear tests since 2006. all of them full of explosives. football sized bags strung with wires. we even had lunch provided by the north koreans, ham and cucumber sandwiches, surrounded by buildings that would be blown up just hours...

The story was unlike any other. 18 trips to north korea, and this country still keeps me guessing. for more than 24 hours, we didn't even know if our trip to the nuclear site would happen. the rhetoric with the u.s. was really heating up. only when we boarded the bus did we know it was a go. we rode for more than 12 hours on a north korean luxury train. it was curb real. a ten -- surreal. a ten-course banquet with all the blinds closed and strict orders not to film outside. we also couldn't drive to the nuclear site. arriving was surreal. the buildings were log cabins, almost like a summer cam...

To three different observation posts that were built for us. we hiked up the side of the ravine to witness basically north korea blow them up. we didn't have any nuclear weapons experts in our group. there were only journalists. so we can't verify how significant these explosions were. but we did see the entrance to the tunnel completely blocked off. we also saw probably nine buildings on-site only blown up completely that used to house the control center, the barracks for the officers on site. just being the first national journalist actually going to a place we've reported about so many time...

Fell short, causing no damage. israel then retaliated with the biggest show of force in syria, since the end of the yom kippur war in 1973. israeli fighter jets destroyed the launcher used by the iranians in the rocket attack earlier and israel says its military decimated iran's military infrastructure in syria. iranian intel and logistics facilities, observation posts, weapons warehouse at damascus international airport, a war monitoring group says 23 people were killed, among them 18 foreigners. syria's foreign minister says the israeli attack was the start of a new phase against damascus. i...