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In a challenge to Syria's new government, an influential religious minority rejects calls to integrate its militias.

The U.S. and Syrian-Kurdish forces have driven ISIS out of Syria. Now, tens of thousands of the women and children — the families of ISIS fighters — are in an overcrowded, remote camp in Syria.

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

Residents of a village in southern Lebanon have resorted to buying satellite images to find out whether their homes have been destroyed by Israel.

Ongoing wars, displacement and economic instability have kept Lebanon in a state of crisis. For some girls and women in a refugee camp in Beirut, a martial arts program is bringing some stability.

Lebanon is repatriating Syrian refugees despite warnings from the United Nations that they may not be safe back in Syria.

It's been 10 years since the ISIS takeover of parts of Iraq and Syria and its campaign of genocide against the Yazidi religious minority. A few women continue to be found, but it comes at a cost.

Israel has recently attacked locations far from the fighting, killing in total almost 200 displaced Lebanese people. NPR went to the site of one of those attacks.

A Gaza scholar at Yale lost his wife, children and mother in Israeli airstrikes. He's fighting to stay in the United States.

One of the biggest targets of Iranian attacks has been in Iraq, against armed Iranian opposition bases in the Kurdistan region. Many opposition fighters see this moment as an chance to go home.