But because professional terrorists had brought much of northern Syria under a kind of psychological control, as I did not quite realize at the time, my escape only led me to the local police — and ...

Federal government faces shutdown after stop-gap funding bill fails in the House, fighting rages in eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, Syria forming a new government after fall of Assad regime.

Syria's new rulers are forming a government after more than half a century of dictatorship under former leader Bashar al-Assad and his father.

Greenfield, the outgoing U.S. ambassador to the U.N., about her career in foreign service and American diplomacy.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who served on the National Security Council, about the bomb attack on a Moscow street, outside a residential building.

Syria's new leader is saying that he will dissolve the many rebel factions there and absorb them into the new ministry of defense. That new leader is Ahmed al-Sharaa. And if he can achieve unity, ...

Syrian rebels reportedly control most of Aleppo following their surprise offensive which left regime forces reeling. Thousands of opposition fighters in armoured vehicles have been deployed to ...

Palestinians are confronting painful new information about a man many had viewed as a defender of their rights, the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. Now they're seeing new stories about the ...