“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 ...

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 ...

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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.

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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 ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday urged Syria's new leaders to ensure "governance that is representative and respectful of all" at a Paris conference on the transition in the war-torn ...