Both liberals and conservatives criticised Ahmed al-Sharaa, after he asked the woman to cover her hair before the picture.

As NPR correspondent Emily Feng reported in our three-part series “The Black Gate,” hundreds of thousands of Uyghur people have been detained in China. They’ve been subjected to torture, forced labor, religious restrictions, and even forced sterilization. In this episode from 2021, our colleagues at the history podcast Throughline explore who the Uyghur people are, their land, their customs,...

The president-elect and Elon Musk rejected the bipartisan spending plan that would prevent a government shutdown.

A court upholds the influencer’s challenge of the human trafficking case against him and his brother.

Israel rejects as a lie the rights group’s claim that it is blocking access to water critical for survival.

BBC Africa Correspondent Mayeni Jones reports from cyclone-hit Mayotte, as French President Emmanuel Macron visits to assess the damage.

Houthi-run media say nine people were killed, hours after a Houthi missile was shot down over Israel.

Thousands are still missing after the cyclone hit the territory, with residents facing shortages of food and water.

As Syria’s economy collapsed during its civil war, the country became something of a narco state. The regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad earned billions by trafficking in the drug Captagon.

A French panel of judges found dozens of men guilty of raping a woman whose ex-husband had drugged her unconscious over the course of a decade.

NPR makes an unprecedented visit to the desert camp full of Syrians who fled the regime and ISIS attacks nearly a decade ago. They were trapped against the border until the fall of the Syrian regime.

We take you inside one of Syria’s factories that produced captagon, the illegal stimulant that helped keep the Assad regime afloat.

Sarkozy, 69, faces a year in prison, but is expected to ask to be detained at home with an electronic bracelet — as is the case for any sentence of two years or less.

Some 1,000 have been injured and senior officers are among the casualties, an MP says, quoting officials.

The site in Manhattan was used to help China identify pro-democracy activists, prosecutors say.

The Hollywood star plays famous opera singer Maria Callas in a new biopic.

Judges will deliver verdicts on the defendants in a case that turned a 72-year-old woman into a feminist icon.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Mohammed al-Refaai, who we first met nine years ago when he moved to Ohio from Syria.