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 ...

As Syria's economy collapsed during the long civil war ... Hi, Greg. GREG MYRE, BYLINE: Hey, Ari. SHAPIRO: What is Captagon? MYRE: Well, Captagon was created as a legal pharmaceutical drug in Germany ...

The brutal regime of Bashar al Assad fell over the weekend with dizzying speed. Syrians within the country and around the ...

What comes next in Syria? That is a huge question after the ... TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE: Hey, Ari. SHAPIRO: What kind of chemical weapon stockpile did Bashar al-Assad have? BOWMAN: Well, Ari, Assad ...

HEYDEMANN: Well, I think Syria faces significant headwinds, and they arise in part from the identity of HTS as an Islamist movement. SHAPIRO ... Thank you very much, Ari. Transcript provided ...

In Syria, people have grown up looking over their ... RUTH SHERLOCK, BYLINE: Hi, Ari. SHAPIRO: We've seen celebrations across the country at the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, but this is ...

As Syria's economy collapsed during the long ... GREG MYRE, BYLINE: Hey, Ari. SHAPIRO: What is Captagon? MYRE: Well, Captagon was created as a legal pharmaceutical drug in Germany in the 1960s.

The news in Syria has raised immediate questions about the fate of Assad's stockpiles of chemical weapons and the continued presence of U.S. forces fighting the Islamic State in the northeast.

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 Steven Heydemann, Middle East Studies director at Smith College, about how Syria might avoid replicating Arab countries that are worse off after overthrowing dictators.