Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

In Latakia, a Syrian coastal city that has been the site of killings targeting the Alawite minority, four Sunni and Shiite ...

Halabi is trying to raise $5,000 to visit his family in Syria for the first time in more than 13 years. In December, dictator Bashar al-Assad fled the country as his regime fell.

MOHAMMAD AYATOLLAHI TABAAR is a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Associate Professor of International Affairs at Texas A ...

The U.S. spy chief, who built her political identity opposing military intervention, is falling in line after the bombing of ...

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Monday to lift the U.S. sanctions on Syria after the fall of the Assad regime. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

Dan Brotman was detained at the Lebanese border, and spent six days in filthy cells, denied food, medical care and witnessed ...

All but two House Republicans voted this afternoon to pass the party’s sprawling bill to extend tax cuts and slash social ...

In a 218-to-214 vote, the House of Representatives passed a sweeping bill that extends tax cuts and slashes social safety-net ...

The hatred shown at the Glastonbury festival this past weekend is unprecedented. The notion that calls are made for the death ...

Welcome to our live blog bringing you the latest developments from West Asia. Stay updated on key shifts in regional ...