As it tried to crush an uprising about a decade ago, the Assad regime ruling Syria faced a new problem - it had too many children in detention. An NPR investigation has found that intelligence agents ...

Hani al-Farra shared these images of his son and daughter, who went missing with his pregnant wife and their third child at a Syrian regime checkpoint in 2013. Al-Farra searched for them for years to ...

Haiti's gangs have near-total control of Port-au-Prince. Bestselling author Mitch Albom runs an orphanage in the city.

For a man who spent his better part of his childhood in an orphanage in Sierra Leone, it would be safe to assume that Emmanuel Mohamed Nabieu, fondly known as Nabs, would be a passionate advocate of ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — In the fall of 2018, Syrian security forces dragged a mother and her 2-year-old daughter, Hiba, from their home and detained them. The mother, Sukayna Jebawi, says that they were ...

Hani al-Farra shared these images of his son and daughter, who went missing with his pregnant wife and their third child at a Syrian regime checkpoint in 2013. Al-Farra searched for them for years to ...