Hiba is one of hundreds of Syrian children referred to as "security placement ... director of an orphanage run by the Muslim Women's Charitable Association. "They would have turned me into ...

A naturalized U.S. citizen who pleaded guilty to receiving military training from the Islamic State group has been sentenced ...

Six months after the fall of Syria’s Assad regime, mass burial sites of the war’s victims are still not cordoned off or ...

While it was believed that the camps, which are home to more than 40,000 families, will be shut down and the inmates will be repatriated to their own countries, the authorities have now clarified to ...

In Syria, according to a U.S. defense department ... Image The Al Hol camp where the wives and children of Islamic State fighters have been held for years.Credit...Daniel Berehulak/The New York ...

Tarek Mehanna -- who prosecutors say once vowed to wage armed jihad against Americans both here and abroad -- has been ...

The Rukban displacement camp, which opened and was cut off in the height of the war in 2014, housed thousands of people.

Muslims are the world’s fastest-growing and second-largest religious group. In the Middle East-North Africa region, they make ...

American troops are withdrawing, foreign jihadists are being recruited, and most worryingly, there’s talk of closing the ...

The Al-Kharrat family in Syria has kept the tradition of Sema, or the dance of the whirling dervishes, alive for decades.

Assad's forces detained mothers and children and sent many of the youth to orphanages. Syrians whose children vanished during the war are now seeking information on their fate. NPR investigates.