Senior U.S. diplomats on Friday held their first formal talks in Damascus with the leader of the Islamist rebels who ...

Syrians in the United States are grappling with the implications of the end of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and what it means for ...

Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. During his first two years on the program, listenership to All Things Considered ...

Syrian rebels reportedly control most of Aleppo following their surprise offensive which left regime forces reeling. Thousands of opposition fighters in armoured vehicles have been deployed to ...

In Syria these days, one event is on repeat - reunions. Since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship a little over a week ago, long-lost relatives are finding their ways back to each other.

As Syria's economy collapsed during the civil war, the country became something of narco-state. The now-ousted regime was estimated to earn billions annually from trafficking a drug known as Captagon.