In Syria about a decade ago, while the Assad regime was focused on crushing an uprising that challenged its rule, it faced a ...

Mohammed, 15, learned about the dangers of unexploded ordnance at a UNICEF child-friendly space — knowledge he used to save ...

Hundreds of people were killed in Syria over four days after violent clashes between the army and loyalists of the deposed ...

The recent mass killings targeting Syria’s Alawite minority in the west of the country raise doubts about the new leader, ...

Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last ...

Children are feared to be among more than 1,000 people reportedly killed in fierce fighting over the weekend in Syria’s ...

On March 9, 2013, members of Assad's military intelligence arrested Rania Al-Abbasi's husband, Abdul Rahman Yasin, in their home, before returning to loot all the gold and money, seize three cars, ...

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.

Clashes between government security forces and supporters of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 311 ...

Nearly a decade after Pope Francis plucked them from a refugee camp in Greece, a Syrian couple and their child have carved ...

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.