Over the last two weeks, there has been some support for Israel's attacks on Iran from Gulf Arab states. There are also fears that Israel wants to fashion a new Middle East in its own image.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with journalist Steve Coll about the parallels between Iraq and Iran when it comes to discussions of a potential war due to an adversarial country's weapons program.

A Syrian man takes pictures with his mobile phone of Iranian missiles on their way toward Israel, as they pass over Damascus airspace, Syria, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki) By ...

Dorothy Shea, the acting U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said on Tuesday that the Syrian government, as a first order of business, ought to “begin discussions with Israel on a non ...

This, in a nutshell, is what I have labeled, in my upcoming book, “Lions and Scavengers,” the scavenger mentality. It seeks to build nothing.

BERLIN (AP) — A German court sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes in his Syrian homeland on Monday for killing two people and torturing nine in Syria between ...

A Syrian doctor, center, accused of torture and war crimes in his Syrian homeland, stands next to his lawyer Oussama Al-Agi, right, in the Higher Regional Court before the verdict is announced in ...

Greetings from Palmyra, Syria, with its once-grand hotel named for a warrior queen By Jane Arraf Published June 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM CDT ...

ari shapiro, host: Drug overdose deaths have fallen dramatically in the United States. New federal data show young people under the age of 35 are seeing some of the biggest improvements.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with John Seabrook about his book The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, which tells the story of his family's frozen vegetable empire.