“I was terrified,” Ms. al-Aqaar said recently in her home in the village of Suwaisah, in southwestern Syria, as her daughter watched “Tom and Jerry” cartoons. “We were afraid of being ...

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Now to Syria - many things have changed there since the Regime of Bashar al-Assad fell in December. NPR's Jane Arraf climbed on board the victory train in Damascus. It was once a propaganda tool for ...

An NPR investigation finds that more than 350 Syrian children were secretly placed in orphanages across the capital, Damascus, when the Assad regime was in power. Now, some of them cannot be found.

Here are some of the major stories of the Catholic Church around the world that you might have missed this past week.

The case is at the center of President Trump’s effort to expel foreign students who took part in last year’s campus protests ...

Portraits of the American Grotesque. New York: OR Press, 2025. 252pp. $45.00 Sometimes, unpredictably, a radical artist ...

Thanks to Bugs Bunny and his pals, I grew up imagining the desert as a lifeless, foreboding expanse of sand and heat. In some ...

Of the steady stream of Palestinian Authority lies, possibly the most farcical is its claim to be a 6000-year-old nation together with its denial of the thousands of years of Israel's documented ...

Chinese tariffs on American agricultural goods go into effect today. The levies, of up to 15%, are a response to Mr Trump’s ...

Dismay over suspension of refugee programs; airport hologram funding; local immigration bills; hostile Trump-Zelenskyy ...

But what has really broken the nation was the torment of the Bibas family. Residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz, this young family has ...