Senior U.S. diplomats on Friday held their first formal talks in Damascus with the leader of the Islamist rebels who overthrew the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a discussion they later ...

SHAPIRO: Mohammed al-Refai was a 22-year-old refugee from Syria. In 2015, millions of Syrians fled the civil war in their country. Mohammed's family went across the border to Jordan, but something ...

As Syria's economy collapsed during the civil war, the country became something of narco-state. The now-ousted regime was estimated to earn billions annually from trafficking a drug known as Captagon.

The brutal regime of Bashar al Assad fell over the weekend with dizzying speed. Syrians within the country and around the ...

Travis Timmerman, a U.S. citizen found wandering barefoot in Damascus after being freed from a Syrian prison following the ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Steven Heydemann, Middle East Studies director at Smith College, about how Syria might avoid replicating Arab countries that are worse off after overthrowing dictators.

Austin Tice has been missing in Syria for years. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with two of his siblings, after Assad's regime fell in Syria.

What comes next in Syria? That is a huge question after the ... TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE: Hey, Ari. SHAPIRO: What kind of chemical weapon stockpile did Bashar al-Assad have? BOWMAN: Well, Ari, Assad ...

What comes next in Syria? That is a huge question after the shocking overthrow ... Hey, Tom. TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE: Hey, Ari. SHAPIRO: What kind of chemical weapon stockpile did Bashar al-Assad have?