President Biden said he spoke with the governor of Puerto Rico and the energy secretary after a blackout hit nearly all of ...

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, ...

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

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.

Nabil Hawara was 40 years old when he was finally released from Syria's infamous desert prisons after spending half his life ...

The Biden administration says it has decided not to pursue a $10 million reward it had offered for the capture of a Syrian ...

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 ...

The flurry of military activity, which began hours after Assad fled to Moscow as rebels seized Damascus on December 8 ... they have largely been restricted to pockets of central and eastern desert ...

The name Southern Operations Room has emerged strongly on the Syrian scene. One day after its formation, Syrian factions ...

Assad claimed to have left Damascus for Russia's Hmeimim air base in the early hours of December 8, shortly before Islamist ...