States Went All In on Sports Gambling — and Young Men Are the Losers Audio By Carbonatix This past Good Friday, the Islamic Society of Wichita, Kan., invited a self-declared Hamas supporter, Sheikh ...

Editor's note: Monzer Omar is one of the more than 4 million Syrians who have fled their homeland since war erupted in that country in 2011. NPR correspondents Ari Shapiro and Joanna Kakissis followed ...

Here's an update on a story that NPR started following almost two years ago in Izmir, Turkey, a city on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. That's where NPR's Ari Shapiro first met a teacher from Syria ...

For years, US authorities were desperate to get their hands on a man they called the “Peacock,” a Syrian-born weapons dealer said to be behind some of the world’s most notorious acts of violence. The ...

The Eleftherios Venizelos ferry, which Greece now uses exclusively to transport refugees from the Aegean islands, arrives in the port of Piraeus near Athens. Clothes dry on the side of a fence at a ...