Stories from men conscripted into the Syrian military help explain why it collapsed. Leila Fadel is a national correspondent for NPR based in Los Angeles, covering issues of culture, diversity, and ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Stephen Rapp, a former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, on his trip to Syria to help preserve evidence from mass graves.

NPR's Leila Fadel, Jane Arraf, and Ruth Sherlock share their reporting from Syria more than a week after the fall of the Assad regime.

Edition host Leila Fadel reports from Damascus, in the first week in a half-century that the Assad family did not rule the country.

So why did his feared military disintegrate when rebel fighters swept across Syria to take the capital? Leila Fadel reports from Syria, and we should warn you - this is a story about Syria's civil ...

Our colleague, Leila Fadel, is in Syria learning some of the secrets of a government that has now fallen. Her latest revelation is painful enough that some people may find it hard to listen to ...

And, Leila, I spoke with a senior U.S. military ... that they will be equally safe in this new Syria. FADEL: And not to mention all of the outside influences, right? Turkey's influence.