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, ...

They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen ... leaving a bad taste in the mouths of Middle Eastern peoples ...

As an ancient identity left stateless, Assyrians stand as the most concrete example of this reality. From Mesopotamia to the ...

After dusk, the president slipped out of the capital, flying covertly to a Russian military base in northern Syria and then ...

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

For years, Syria was a fabled destination for cultural holidays. Now operators believe Britons could return as soon as next ...

Syrians who remained loyal to him through years of civil war fume that he left without a word. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Theodore J. Singer was the CIA’s former head of Middle East operations. He doesn’t hold out much hope after Bashar al-Assad’s ...

Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday ... power to a transitional governing body with executive powers to rule the ancient nation of more than 23 million people. "The great Syrian revolution ...

In the corridors of Damascus's main hospitals, thousands of families have gathered for the foreboding mission of trying to find the bodies of loved ones captured years ago by the Syrian authorities.

DAMASCUS (AP) — Exuberant Syrians observed the first Friday prayers since the ouster of President Bashar Assad, gathering in the capital's historic main mosque, its largest square and around the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Jubilant Syrians crowded ... stormed the capital and overthrew Assad less than a week ago. The ancient mosque is adjacent to the tomb of the 12th century Muslim hero Saladin ...