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.

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.

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 ...

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would order the lifting of sanctions on Syria at the behest of Saudi Arabia's crown prince, a major U.S. policy shift ahead of an expected meeting with ...

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.

Thomas J. Barrack Jr., the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, says Washington is facilitating the discussions and prioritizing economic development over nation-building in the Middle East.

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 ...

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. Defense Department’s Syrian train and equip program -- which sought to raise a 5,000-strong rebel army by the end of this year to take on the Islamic State -- was finally scuttled by ...