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 ...
Most Americans are unaware that today’s Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats (Skyes ...
Syria's new authorities have arrested a military justice official who under ousted president Bashar al-Assad issued death ...
Footage posted on social media shows the tree alight in Suqaylabiyah, near the city of Hama. It isn't clear who set it on fire, but the act led hundreds of demonstrators to take to the streets 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 – ...