President Bashar Assad and his father, Hafez Assad, combined to rule Syria for more than 50 years, always with an iron fist ...
The Syrian government appeared to have fallen early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a ...
The bells of Notre Dame Cathedral rang on Saturday evening in Paris for the first time since a fire devastated the Paris ...
It has been a dramatic week in Syria as the country's long-stagnant civil war, which began in the early 2010s, has reignited. Insurgent groups have taken over big cities long controlled by Syrian ...
Weary Ukrainian civilians escaping war arrive every day. They come from the chain of coal mining towns that line this ...
Eleanor Beardsley began reporting from France for NPR in 2004 as a freelance journalist, following all aspects of French society, politics, economics, culture and gastronomy. Since then, she has ...
Vows to shrink the deficit, pay down the debt and run government more like a business have long been a stock element of ...
Science fiction author Ted Chiang wrote the short story that became the movie "Arrival." He talks with host Scott Detrow.
Trump's campaign promised policies targeting the transgender community once he's in office. LGBTQ groups face fear, anxiety ...
The Ethiopian wolf is a reddish-brown solitary hunter only found in the highlands of Ethiopia. "For now, the population is ...
India's ruling Hindu nationalist party, the BJP, has accused the U.S. State Department of trying to "destabilize" India.