CNN’s Clarissa Ward recently traveled undercover to a rebel-held area of Syria, where she witnessed 11 people die in an airstrike, but she didn’t miss a beat and reported on the chaos as it unfolded.
“I’ve seen the aftermath of airstrikes before, it’s deeply unpleasant and very frightening and chaotic. People are in shock and hysterical,” Ward told TheWrap. “There is a very surreal quality to all of it.”
She and her crew were among the first, and only, Western journalists to access the dangerous section of Syria in more than a year.
Ward, filmmaker Bilal Abdul Kareem and producer Salma Abdelaziz were filming at the top of a hill when the airstrikes hit and the plume of smoke was visible in the background of her video.