NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Linda Hartke, president and CEO of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, about the future of refugee resettlement after the U.S. airstrikes in Syria.

The optimism about changes in Syria should be tempered by a look at what is in, and what's out, in the new regime's schoolbooks.

Trump, of course, is not the first U.S. president to have allegedly been affected by media images in making foreign policy decisions. After the 1991 Gulf War, images of Kurdish refugees fleeing ...

Recent months have brought considerable optimism about the changes in Syria since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. President Trump has met with the new Syrian leader, Ahmed al-Shaara, U.S ...

U.S. defense officials said this week that the Pentagon planned to cut the roughly 2,000 U.S. forces based in Syria by half in coming weeks and consolidate its outposts there.

Former U.S. ambassador says he could ‘no longer defend’ Obama administration’s Syria policy Jun 3, 2014 8:44 PM EDT ...

The swift collapse of the Assad family’s 54-year dictatorship in Syria is a seminal moment in the country’s history and one of the biggest changes in the Middle East’s political architecture ...

Roughly 900 U.S. troops, including a number of Green Berets, will remain in Syria to continue supporting and advising the Syrian Democratic Forces fighting the Islamic State.

U.S. military mission in Syria will pose an early dilemma for Trump. The upheaval triggered by Bashar al-Assad’s ouster has raised urgent questions about the 2,000 troops who serve as a bulwark ...

Commanders have recommended keeping at least 500 U.S. troops in Syria, one of the officials said. President Trump, however, has expressed deep skepticism about keeping any U.S. troops in the country.

There are at least 900 U.S. forces in Syria on average, along with an undisclosed number of contractors. U.S. special operations forces also move in and out of the country but are usually in small ...

The U.S. has conducted airstrikes against more than 75 ISIS targets in Syria following Assad's departure, the Military Times reported. B-52 bombers, F-15 fighters and A-10 Warthogs were used in ...