What would it mean to classify Mexican drug cartels as "foreign terrorist organizations"? NPR speaks with Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the DEA.

Aaron Zelin of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy talks with NPR's Leila Fadel about the group that now controls Syria and why it's so hard to shed the label of "terrorists." ...

Leila Molana-Allen reports from Assad’s hometown, a crumbling vestige of the regime. As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, Syrians in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia ...

After the downfall of the Assad regime, how can Syrians reconcile and form an inclusive government for all citizens? NPR speaks with Mona Yacoubian with the United States Institute of Peace.

As Syria emerges from civil war ... And so it is important to have both of these elements. LEILA FADEL, HOST: You know, I covered Iraq for a long time, and so much that Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham ...

Villagers in Syria's Golan Heights have told NPR that Israeli troops have raided their homes and confiscated weapons. Israel says its military operation in the area is to ensure border security.

FADEL: And what are Syrians saying about the seizure of land? AL-SHALCHI: Well, for a context, Israel seized and occupied the Golan Heights from Syria during the Arab-Israeli war of '67 ...

In Syria's capital, Damascus, there are hole-in-the-wall beauty parlors on nearly every street, places for women to chat while getting blowouts and manicures. And when NPR's Diaa Hadid visited a few, ...