Assad, ending over 60 years of Baath party rule in Syria, the country’s authorities have an unprecedented opportunity to ...

Paris Grapples With The Remembrance Of Terrorist Attacks, From 1974 To November 13, 2015. Since 1974, almost 150 terrorist ...

Large parts of Syria were once overrun by the terrorist group Islamic State. The country’s new government has just committed ...

The violence was the worst to hit Lebanon since the end of its civil war in 1991. It began in Beirut but quickly spread to nearby mountain villages in the Mount Lebanon area and t ...

Under the auspices of the Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in the Near East (UAECNE), one of the most distinguished ...

One of the most distinguished ecclesiastical and ecumenical figures of the 20th century in the Middle East, the late Rev.

In this hour, we will be remembering the life of Dick Cheney. The former vice president was politically prominent from the 1970s until his death. We're also following elections on this Tuesday, on ...

These will only be partial payments for the supplemental nutrition, and it may take a while to get the money out. MARTIN: NPR's Jennifer Ludden is here to tell us more. Good morning, Jennifer.

At the heart of the government shutdown is a fight over health insurance, specifically how much it should cost buyers who use the government-run marketplace set up under the Affordable Care Act. Along ...

When the Dalai Lama fled Chinese-controlled Tibet, he eventually came to the Indian town of Dharamshala. For decades, Tibetan refugees followed him there. NPR's Diaa Hadid reports that that is ...