NEW YORK — They have seen him smiling on a hostel security camera, but don't know his name. They found the backpack he ...
The Syrian government collapsed early Sunday, falling to a lightning rebel offensive that seized control of the capital of ...
The Syrian government appeared to have fallen early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a ...
President Bashar Assad and his father, Hafez Assad, combined to rule Syria for more than 50 years, always with an iron fist ...
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.
Weary Ukrainian civilians escaping war arrive every day. They come from the chain of coal mining towns that line this ...
Vows to shrink the deficit, pay down the debt and run government more like a business have long been a stock element of ...
The insurgents' march across Syria gained speed on Saturday with news that they had reached the suburbs of the capital and ...
Trump's campaign promised policies targeting the transgender community once he's in office. LGBTQ groups face fear, anxiety ...
The Ethiopian wolf is a reddish-brown solitary hunter only found in the highlands of Ethiopia. "For now, the population is ...
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 ...
Eleanor Beardsley began reporting from France for NPR in 2004 as a freelance journalist, following all aspects of French society, politics, economics, culture and gastronomy. Since then, she has ...