NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with retired U.S. Army General Joseph Votel about the Pentagon shuttering offices focused on reducing harm to civilians during U.S. combat operations.

Working groups met to discuss topics like a new constitution, transitional justice, and Syria’s economic model. As al-Sharaa attempts to shift his role from that of a victorious rebel commander ...

Israel confirmed it is conducting strikes in southern Syria, as the new Syrian government calls for the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Syrian territory. NOTE: The video is from a previous ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s new rulers touted a long-awaited national dialogue conference Tuesday as a “rare historic opportunity” to rebuild the country after the fall of President Bashar ...

Some 600 people from different parts of Syria were invited to the gathering in Damascus, hosted by the new authorities led by the Islamist former insurgent group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS.

(photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90) Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Jihad are operating in Syria to create an additional front against Israel, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said ...

Instead, he told NPR's Leila Fadel "the prime minister has made a very deliberate set of choices and actually turned around and headed in the opposite direction." Pressman spoke with Morning ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with David Pressman, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary, about that country's democratic decay under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station.

Although the conference was called to chart the country’s future, the Kurdish-led militia that controls much of Syria’s northeast was not invited. By Raja Abdulrahim and Euan Ward Reporting fr ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Hundreds of Syrian politicians and activists gathered Tuesday in Damascus to endorse the opening steps of the country’s political transition, a milestone event after decades ...

DAMASCUS, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Syria condemned on Tuesday Israel's incursion into its territories and called for Israel to withdraw, according to a the closing statement of a national dialogue ...

Ahmed al-Shara’s unlikely path from membership in Al Qaeda to head of state has raised questions about how he intends to govern Syria. Ahmed al-Shara’s unlikely path from membership in Al ...