Hadeel al-Shalchi is an editor with Weekend Edition. Prior to joining NPR, Al-Shalchi was a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press and covered the Arab Spring from Tunisia, Bahrain, Egypt, ...

Lebanese officials say the wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins have been arrested at ...

Russia has suffered major losses of troops and equipment since Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in ...

The U.N. organization assisting in investigating the most serious crimes in Syria says the country’s new authorities were ...

Israel’s defense minister has confirmed that Israel assassinated Hamas’ top leader last summer and is threatening to take ...

“The fate of the hostages is contingent upon the Israeli army advancing just hundreds of meters in some of the areas under ...

Bel Trew spent days travelling across Syria – from Aleppo in the north, to the capital Damascus and Deraa in the south – ...

The Middle Eastern country had been ruled by outside powers and dictators for centuries before its revolution was realized.

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The Israeli military has ordered another evacuation in central Gaza ahead of an offensive in the area, even as Israel and the ...

After visiting two mass grave sites near Damascus, former US war crimes ambassador at large Stephen Rapp described a ...

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israeli forces will stay in a buffer zone on the Syrian border, seized after the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad, until another ...