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 ...

Aaron Zelin of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy talks with NPR's Leila Fadel about the group that now controls Syria and why it's so hard to shed the label of "terrorists." ...

In Syria, new leaders are settling in ... DANIEL ESTRIN, BYLINE: Happy New Year, Leila. FADEL: Hadeel, let's start with you. These comments were made to you in a recent interview you did with the ...

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and Syrian people were dancing in the streets. DETROW: Morning Edition host Leila Fadel is in Damascus, and she joins us on the line now. Hey, Leila. LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: Hi. DETROW: What's ...

Leila Fadel is a national correspondent for NPR based ... Her coverage also included stories of human smugglers in Egypt and the Syrian families desperate and willing to pay to risk their lives ...

FADEL: When Syria's peaceful uprising began in 2011, it was met with violence from the regime and turned into a civil war that pitted the country's sects against each other, the Sunni Arab ...

FADEL: And what did people say about what it's like to live with Israeli troops coming into their villages? AL-SHALCHI: I heard a lot of fear. In a village called al-Baath, I spoke to one Syrian ...