CNN's Kate Bolduan has trouble containing her emotions as she reports on the story of Omran Daqneesh, the Syrian boy pulled from the war zone in Aleppo, Syria. CNN Actor Kate Bolduan has trouble containing her emotions as she reports on the story of Omran Daqneesh, the Syrian boy pulled from the war zone in Aleppo, Syria. Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia. De jure Syrian territory borders Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan.