NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Robert Ford, former U.S. ambassador to Syria, about what it means for the region. Syria's nearly 14-year civil war has taken a dramatic turn. A group once linked to al ...

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. In Damascus, Syria, where we're asking what a new Syria ...

LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: When you visit some of the poorer ... FADEL: He served before the war in Syria started over a decade ago, and she hasn't seen him in years. He was detained by Assad's regime ...

Leila Fadel is a host of Morning Edition ... Her coverage also included stories of human smugglers in Egypt and the Syrian families desperate and willing to pay to risk their lives and cross ...

And, Leila, I spoke with a senior U.S. military ... that they will be equally safe in this new Syria. FADEL: And not to mention all of the outside influences, right? Turkey's influence.