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A lack of liquidity is hampering Syria's economic recovery after years of corrupt dictatorship

Amid obstacles in getting food to Gaza, a U.S. aid group tests new ideas for non-lethal ways of dropping aid.

Iraqi security forces swept out anti-government protesters occupying public squares in Baghdad and set fire to encampments after a powerful Shiite cleric removed his support for the protesters.

NPR visits villages along the Lebanese-Syrian border where Israel has continued demolitions and attacks despite a ceasefire last year.

Iraq's port city of Basra is a hub of oil wealth but is poor and angry. Protests have continued for weeks over a lack of drinking water and an excess of political corruption — with some blaming Iran.

NPR makes an unprecedented visit to the desert camp full of Syrians who fled the regime and ISIS attacks nearly a decade ago. They were trapped against the border until the fall of the Syrian regime.

The overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria paved the way for a historic visit, with Syrian Jews returning from the U.S. to Damascus for the first time in three decades, hoping to rebuild community.

One year ago today, Syria's President Assad fled the country as rebels moved into Damascus.

Syria's new government is struggling to impose order in a country where some are settling scores. Sunni Arab fighters have killed members of the same religious sect as the deposed president.

Israel increasingly bars American doctors as medical volunteers to Gaza. Some say it's to prevent witnesses.