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 ...

Edition host Leila Fadel reports from Damascus, in the first week in a half-century that the Assad family did not rule the country.

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.

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.

So why did his feared military disintegrate when rebel fighters swept across Syria to take the capital? Leila Fadel reports from Syria, and we should warn you - this is a story about Syria's civil ...

Hey, Leila. LEILA FADEL, BYLINE ... DETROW: Have you met and talked to anyone from HTS during your time in Syria? FADEL: Yeah, I mean, I've talked to a lot of the rebel fighters.