Samar Yazbek's new novel, "Planet of Clay," outlines the brutal toll of the Syrian civil war as told by a young girl. Yazbek talks with Asma Khalid about the inspiration for the book. Hundreds of ...

Thanks to theorists like Ruth Murray-Clay, astronomers are decoding how distant planets form, evolve, and maybe even host life. When Ruth Murray-Clay entered graduate school, only a handful of ...

Hundreds of thousands of people are thought to have been killed in the past decade in Syria's civil war. Millions more have either left the country or been internally displaced. The new novel "Planet ...

Samar Yazbek's new novel, "Planet of Clay," outlines the brutal toll of the Syrian civil war as told by a young girl. Yazbek talks with Asma Khalid about the inspiration for the book.