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.

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.

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

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.

A Syrian Air flight from Damascus landed in Aleppo on Wednesday, as the transitional government tries to demonstrate its ability to run the war-shattered country. By Raja Abdulrahim Reporting from ...

Warning: This article contains descriptions of torture. DAMASCUS, Syria – Photographs of tortured and broken bodies are taped to the outside walls of Al-Mujtahid Hospital in central Damascus.

Stories from men conscripted into the Syrian military help explain why it collapsed. Leila Fadel is a national correspondent for NPR based in Los Angeles, covering issues of culture, diversity, and ...

Syria's rebel factions will be "disbanded" and trained to join the "ranks of the defence ministry" said the leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, which led rebel fighters to Damascus and ...

Major obstacles could stymie Syria’s new leaders as they struggle to find some footing and improve the country’s living conditions. By Ephrat Livni In the week since President Bashar al-Assad ...

The leader of the rebel coalition that swept to power last week said that fighters would be brought under the defense ministry’s authority. It was not immediately clear how that would be achieved.

Syria diplomacy: As the world reckons with the rise to power of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a conservative Islamist group long designated a terrorist organization, Mr. al-Shara met on Sunday with the U ...

The announcement came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel visited captured Syrian territory. By Euan Ward Jenny Gross Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Thomas Fuller Euan Ward reported from Beirut ...