SHAPIRO: Mohammed al-Refai was a 22-year-old refugee from Syria. In 2015, millions of Syrians fled the civil war in their country. Mohammed's family went across the border to Jordan, but something ...

The brutal regime of Bashar al Assad fell over the weekend with dizzying speed. Syrians within the country and around the ...

As Syria's economy collapsed during the civil war, the country became something of narco-state. The now-ousted regime was estimated to earn billions annually from trafficking a drug known as Captagon.

The news in Syria has raised immediate questions about the fate of Assad's stockpiles of chemical weapons and the continued presence of U.S. forces fighting the Islamic State in the northeast.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Steven Heydemann, Middle East Studies director at Smith College, about how Syria might avoid replicating Arab countries that are worse off after overthrowing dictators.

In Syria, people have known that one wrong step could land them in trouble with the government. For the first time in more than half a century, Syrians are experiencing life without that shadow.

A post shared on X claims that conservative commentator Ben Shapiro said it was a “good thing” that Syrian Christians could ...

JOSHUA LANDIS: It's a pleasure being with you, Ari. SHAPIRO: I want to try to ... hollowed out and didn't have money to pay people. SHAPIRO: Syria has been such a crucial, strategically useful ...

SHERLOCK: Well, Ari, yeah, I mean ... so this gives them a seat at the table in what comes next in Syria. SHAPIRO: That's NPR's Ruth Sherlock. Thank you. SHERLOCK: Thank you.

HEYDEMANN: Well, I think Syria faces significant headwinds, and they arise in part from the identity of HTS as an Islamist movement. SHAPIRO ... Thank you very much, Ari. Transcript provided ...