Hadeel al-Shalchi is an editor with Weekend Edition. Prior to joining NPR, Al-Shalchi was a Middle East correspondent for the ...
The private residence of deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was ransacked after rebels took over the capital, forcing him ...
President-elect Donald Trump doubled down on levying tariffs in his first days in office, minimizing his prior emphasis on ...
Their job is to keep the peace amid a worsening and at times deadly conflict between humans and the world's largest land ...
Late Saturday, police released two additional photos of the suspected shooter that appeared to be from a camera mounted ...
Actor John Lithgow grew up in a theater family but always wanted to be a painter. On Wild Card this week, he opens up what changed his mind.
Rebel forces in Syria say they have ousted President Bashar al-Assad from power, ending more than half a century of brutal ...
President Bashar Al-Assad and his father, Hafez Al-Assad, combined to rule Syria for more than a half-century, always with an ...
The Syrian government appeared to have fallen early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a ...
EJ Beck was a bookish, wispy 10-year-old when a doctor found the thyroid cancer on her tiny neck that upended her life.
It has been a dramatic week in Syria as the country's long-stagnant civil war, which began in the early 2010s, has reignited. Insurgent groups have taken over big cities long controlled by Syrian ...
Science fiction author Ted Chiang wrote the short story that became the movie "Arrival." He talks with host Scott Detrow.