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

Hezbollah is being squeezed in Lebanon as Iran's economic crisis limits support, and the U.S. presses Beirut to force the group to disarm while Israel keeps bombarding Lebanon.

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.

Six months of war in Gaza have sent shock waves through the Arab world. Public anger is growing in Jordan and Lebanon, two countries that have peace treaties with Israel.

Children are among the hundreds of thousands displaced by fighting on the Lebanon-Israel border. In south Lebanon, an arts program is trying to restore some normalcy to their lives.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas is putting neighboring Jordan in a precarious position — in a country already suffering an economic downturn and widespread discontent.

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.

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.

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.