NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Stephen Rapp, a former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, on his trip to Syria to help preserve evidence from mass graves.

Stories from men conscripted into the Syrian military help explain why it collapsed. Leila Fadel is a national correspondent for NPR based in Los Angeles, covering issues of culture, diversity, and ...

Survivors of the Syrian regime's chemical attacks are free now speak about how they lost their families. We meet people who endured attacks that Syria's former president used to stay in power.

When Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled the country, members of his own minority sect say he left them impoverished and stained with his legacy.

A possible ceasefire in the 14-month long war between Israel and Hamas is gaining momentum. There are signs that the two sides are closer to making a deal, but many sticking points remain.

NPR's Leila Fadel, Jane Arraf, and Ruth Sherlock share their reporting from Syria more than a week after the fall of the Assad regime.

Edition host Leila Fadel reports from Damascus, in the first week in a half-century that the Assad family did not rule the country.

INSKEEP: NPR's Hadeel Al-Shalchi is part of NPR's team in Damascus and elsewhere in Syria. In fact, our colleague, Leila Fadel, is in Damascus. We're hearing with - hearing from her elsewhere in today ...

Special correspondent Leila Molana-Allen reports from Damascus. The sea change toward tenuous hope in Syria over the last two weeks has been tempered with a grim accounting of the last 14 years of ...

It's been less than a week since a coalition of opposition fighters overthrew the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. Already, opposition leaders and government workers who've remained are trying to ...

The stunning fall of the Syrian regime to armed rebels has led to claims that “blind mystic” Baba Vanga foretold the events as marking the start of World War III. The famous Bulgarian psychic ...

Israel pounded Syria with hundreds of airstrikes Tuesday, eliminating most of the country’s strategic weapons stockpiles in a move officials say will prevent the dangerous weapons from falling ...