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Syria's ousted dictator relied on a brutal army, and powerful allies. What changed?
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 ...
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Syrians can finally tell their stories about Assad's chemical attacks
Survivors of the Syrian regime's chemical attacks are free now speak about how they lost their families. We meet people who endured attacks that Syria's former president used to stay in power.
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Stephen Rapp discusses holding the former Syrian regime accountable for atrocities
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Stephen Rapp, a former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, on his trip to Syria to help preserve evidence from mass graves.
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Syrian families scour hospitals and morgues for loved ones lost under Assad’s rule
People in Syria are looking for their relatives and friends in prisons, hospitals and morgues. The U.N. estimates over 100,00 ...
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Displaced Syrians return to face daunting task of rebuilding homes and families
In Syria, people are returning home after years of a civil war that displaced millions and left the country divided and ...
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Syria’s rebel leaders face critical decisions as they chart new path for the country
For the first time since he fled the country he ruled with an iron fist and a willingness to kill his own people to hold power, Bashar al-Assad was heard from. In a statement from exile in Moscow, ...
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Amid new freedoms, Syrians face horrors at site of Assad’s 2013 chemical weapons attack
In some ways, Syria is a land of ghosts, and the job of speaking for the dead falls to their loved ones and the new Syrian government. Leila Molana-Allen reports from the suburbs of Damascus. A ...
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Conflict in Syria
What began as protests against President Assad’s regime in 2011 quickly escalated into a full-scale war between the Syrian government—backed by Russia and Iran—and anti-government rebel ...
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Aleppo: Rebels 'take control' of airport as thousands of fighters seize most of Syria's second-biggest city
Syria's military said it had carried out a "temporary troop withdrawal" in Aleppo to prepare for a counteroffensive against "terrorists". And it admitted insurgents had entered large parts of the ...
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Leila Fadel
Leila Fadel is a national correspondent for NPR based in Los Angeles, covering issues of culture, diversity, and race. Most recently, she was NPR's international correspondent based in Cairo and ...
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Syrian Civil War
The Conflict in Syria and the Failure of International Law to Protect People Globally On the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, David Scheffer ...
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Up First from NPR
Available weekdays at 6:30 a.m. ET, with hosts Leila Fadel, Steve Inskeep, Michel Martin and A Martinez. Also available on Saturdays at 9 a.m. ET, with Ayesha Rascoe and Scott Simon. On Sundays ...