SHAPIRO: Mohammed al-Refai was a 22-year-old refugee from Syria. In 2015, millions of Syrians fled the civil war in their country. Mohammed's family went across the border to Jordan, but something ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Steven Heydemann, Middle East Studies director at Smith College, about how Syria might avoid replicating Arab countries that are worse off after overthrowing dictators.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with professor Joshua Landis, who directs the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, about how the fall of the Assad regime could change global dynamics.

Austin Tice has been missing in Syria for years. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with two of his siblings, after Assad's regime fell in Syria.

We begin this hour in Syria. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Non-English language spoken). SHAPIRO: In this footage posted to social media, a woman runs into the street in ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Mouaz Moustafa of the non-profit Syrian Emergency Task Force about the dramatic toppling of the Assad regime, as Moustafa prepares to fly back to his home city, Damascus.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Sara Kassim, a freelance reporter in Aleppo about the situation on the ground after opposition forces have captured large swaths of land in the area.

With an update to a story that I've been covering for as long as I've been hosting this show - my first reporting trip as an ALL THINGS CONSIDERED host was to Toledo, Ohio, in 2015, where I met a ...

As Syria's economy collapsed during the civil war, the country became something of narco-state. The now-ousted regime was estimated to earn billions annually from trafficking a drug known as Captagon.