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 ...

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Hey, Leila. LEILA FADEL, BYLINE ... DETROW: Have you met and talked to anyone from HTS during your time in Syria? FADEL: Yeah, I mean, I've talked to a lot of the rebel fighters.

Aaron Zelin of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy talks with NPR's Leila Fadel about the group that now controls Syria and why it's so hard to shed the label of "terrorists." ...

Leila Fadel is a national correspondent for NPR based in Los Angeles, covering issues of culture, diversity, and race. Most recently, she was NPR's international correspondent based in Cairo and ...

FADEL: And what are Syrians saying about the seizure of land? AL-SHALCHI: Well, for a context, Israel seized and occupied the Golan Heights from Syria during the Arab-Israeli war of '67 ...

FADEL: When Syria's peaceful uprising began in 2011, it was met with violence from the regime and turned into a civil war that pitted the country's sects against each other, the Sunni Arab ...