Hadeel al-Shalchi is an editor with Weekend Edition. Prior to joining NPR, Al-Shalchi was a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press and covered the Arab Spring from Tunisia, Bahrain, Egypt, ...

Assad's ouster, there are questions about the fate of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition that ...

A 43-year-old man who's a registered sex offender is back in custody after cutting off his electronic ankle monitor and ...

Former Syrian rebels who now serve as part of the new Syrian government's armed forces posed for photo portraits with their ...

After fifty-four years of Assad family dictatorship collapsed in a few days, a new Syria is going to be born. Every decent ...

The rebels capturing Damascus marked a turning point for Syria, which had been shattered by more than 13 years of war which ...

Muslim armies, advancing north from the Arabian Peninsula, were able to easily enter Damascus from its east gate, which was ...

The wealthy Arab states were anxious before the first election of Donald Trump in the year 2017 about the reduced US role in ...

In Syria, after 13 years of civil war, armed rebels took the capital Damascus, in a lightning advance, prompting President ...

The, Turkey and Israel all responded to the fall of the Assad government in Damascus by launching bombing campaigns on Syria.

Syrian producer Mohammad al-Shebli was helping to translate the anguished messages scrawled on cell walls by prisoners of the brutal Assad regime made a heart-wrenching discovery.

Anyone who is interested in the roots of Christian history is familiar with the following, drawn from the 11th chapter of Acts. Where is Antioch today? That biblical city now known as Antakya, located ...