The Shadow Doctors
Over the past five years, the Syrian government has killed almost 700 medical personnel. Inside the race to spread medical knowledge as the Assad regime erases it.
Over the past five years, the Syrian government has killed almost 700 medical personnel. Inside the race to spread medical knowledge as the Assad regime erases it.
Ben Taub New Yorker Jun 2016 25min Permalink
Of the 4.5 million Syrians who have fled their nation’s bloody civil war, fewer than 3,000 have made it to America. This is one family’s story.
Matthew Shaer Atlanta Magazine May 2016 20min Permalink
On settling in Los Angeles after life as a war correspondent in the Middle East.
Kelly McEvers Lenny Apr 2016 Permalink
How war-crimes investigators captured top-secret documents tying the Syrian regime to mass murder.
Ben Taub New Yorker Apr 2016 40min Permalink
The story of Jejoen Bontinck, a Belgian teen-ager who travelled to Syria to fight with radical Islamists.
Ben Taub New Yorker Jun 2015 35min Permalink
Life and death with the young and radicalized.
Alex Perry Newsweek Jan 2015 55min Permalink
More than 4 million Syrians have fled the war. 2,647 have made it to the United States.
Eliza Griswold New York Times Magazine Jan 2016 30min Permalink
Since the Syrian rebel leader Hassan Aboud joined ISIS, taking with him fighters and weapons, he has been behind a sprawling mix of battlefield action and crime.
C.J. Chivers New York Times Dec 2015 Permalink
On a thin sliver of land called Rojava where “rules of the neighboring ISIS caliphate ha[ve] been inverted,” a Kurdish Syrian college trains its future autonomous leaders.
Wes Enzinna New York Times Magazine Nov 2015 30min Permalink
They were cousins who grow up in Raqqa amidst parties, beaches, even bikinis. They married ISIS fighters to protect their families, then became morality policers.
Azadeh Moaveni New York Times Nov 2015 Permalink
The daily life and dwindling hopes of a 12-year-old Syrian refugee.
A Syrian refugee’s epic escape route through Europe.
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Oct 2015 35min Permalink
The photographs that Caesar, a Syrian military photographer, smuggled out of Assad’s death dungeons.
Garance le Caisne The Guardian Oct 2015 20min Permalink
The ragtag group of fighters from America and Europe who joined the fight against extremists in Syria don’t seem to know what they are doing.
Jennifer Percy New York Times Magazine Sep 2015 15min Permalink
While a Marine stationed in Afghanistan, Austin Tice decided he wanted to become a war photographer. He entered Syria and filed stories for McClatchy and the Washington Post. Then he disappeared.
Sonia Smith Texas Monthly Oct 2015 35min Permalink
A refugee’s odyssey from Syria to Sweden.
Patrick Kingsley The Guardian Jun 2015 Permalink
Feeling abandoned by America, families fight to save their children from ISIS.
Lawrence Wright New Yorker Jul 2015 1h25min Permalink
A French reporter went undercover as potential “caliphette” and recieved a marriage proposal from a senior ISIS commander.
Margarette Driscoll Sunday Times of London Mar 2015 10min Permalink
Reconstructing the investigation into Rafik Hariri’s assassination, for which five men stand trial in absentia.
Ronen Bergman New York Times Magazine Feb 2015 35min Permalink
How one young American veteran got caught in the cobweb of Syrian rebel politics.
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Feb 2015 35min Permalink
More than 500 Germans, including a former rapper named Deso Dogg, have joined ISIS in Syria.
Der Spiegel Nov 2014 10min Permalink
An American journalist on being kidnapped, tortured and released in Syria.
Theo Padnos New York Times Magazine Oct 2014 35min Permalink
Those who survived tell the story of twenty three ISIS hostages’ shared months of brutal captivity before some were ransomed and some executed.
Rukmini Callimachi New York Times Oct 2014 20min Permalink
The complexities of offering aid to a Syrian refugee camp.
Joshua Hersh VQR Oct 2014 30min Permalink
Seven days with Syria’s first responders.
Matthieu Aikins Matter Sep 2014 35min Permalink