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 ...

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.

NPR's Leila Fadel, Jane Arraf, and Ruth Sherlock share their reporting from Syria more than a week after the fall of the Assad regime.

Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast. Leila Fadel is a national correspondent for NPR based in Los Angeles, covering issues of culture, diversity, ...

People in Syria are looking for their relatives and friends in prisons, hospitals and morgues. The U.N. estimates over a 100,00 people have gone missing in Syria under the Assad regime.

AS Syrian rebels gained control of Damascus, Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia. But the excitement about a new Syria comes with uncertainty about what the future holds.

The road to Damascus tells the story of a new Syria emerging from 54 years of authoritarian rule by one family, the Assads. Today's Syria is no longer theirs.

and Syrian people were dancing in the streets. DETROW: Morning Edition host Leila Fadel is in Damascus, and she joins us on the line now. Hey, Leila. LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: Hi. DETROW: What's ...

INSKEEP: NPR's Hadeel Al-Shalchi is part of NPR's team in Damascus and elsewhere in Syria. In fact, our colleague, Leila Fadel, is in Damascus. We're hearing with - hearing from her elsewhere in ...

Leila Fadel is a national correspondent for NPR based ... Her coverage also included stories of human smugglers in Egypt and the Syrian families desperate and willing to pay to risk their lives ...

LEILA FADEL, HOST: But first ... So there's now major celebrations across the country but also among the millions of Syrian refugees, many of whom now want to return. NPR producer in Lebanon ...