The head of a rebel group is now the head of Syria. How will he lead a country destroyed by civil war and sectarianism? NPR found clues in a region in northern Syria, where he governed for years.

Imagine the life of a baby trapped in dark, damp tunnels, of a toddler ripped from his family.

Over the last 15 years, the Middle East has been racked by war, destruction, and displacement. Hundreds of thousands of ...

Last week his officials announced a seven-person “preparatory” committee, charged with planning a national conference where a new constitution will be discussed. Critics say it is dominated by ...

As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the United States more than three decades ago, they were met by former neighbo ...

FAR’A REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — By car and on foot, through muddy olive groves and snipers’ sight lines, tens of ...

French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant against ousted Syrian leader Bashar Al Assad for suspected complicity in war crimes, notably the launch of a deliberate attack on ...

Abu Qasra, a trained agricultural engineer, served as a first lieutenant in Assad’s military before he ... reasons. Syria then was in the throes of full-blown civil war, after the Assad ...

Syria's former President Bashar Al-Assad fled to Moscow when rebel forces captured Damascus after a stunning sweep across the country. NBC News’ Hala Gorani spoke with Assad’s former ...

Israel is building military bases in Syria, a local leader told the Washington Post. Mohammed Muraiwid, the mayor of Jubata al-Khassab, told the Post that Israeli bulldozers tore down fruit trees ...

ending the Assad family’s 54-year rule and ostensibly the first phase of the Syrian Civil War. Beginning in the Spring of 2011 after a violent crackdown on anti-Assad protests, the Syrian Civil ...

Iran claimed the barrage was in response to an Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate Damascus, Syria ... of Israel’s war cabinet, alongside opposition figure Benny Gantz before it was disbanded.