In March, masked agents swarmed her on a Somerville street. The crackdown on foreign scholars was just beginning.

The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS ...

For the first time in 16 years, I took the opportunity to go to Damascus, where I was born but have never lived. I was expecting an emotional reckoning of the weight of reconnecting with a heritage ...