Evaporated
On the trail of Austin Tice and the late James Foley, freelance journalists who were kidnapped in Syria in 2012.
Syria
How to Build a Perfect Refugee Camp
Why do Syrian civilians in a Turkish camp live in relative luxury?
Bashar Al Assad: An Intimate Profile of a Mass Murderer
How the Syrian president stays in power.
Whose Sarin?
Did the Obama Administration ignore evidence that someone other than Assad could be behind the sarin attacks?
Enduring Exile
A family’s journey from Armenia to Syria and back again.
On the Ground With Syria's News Smugglers
How citizen journalists are covering the war.
Once Upon a Time in the Middle East
On driving (and walking) in the Middle East – from Syria to Lebanon, across Saudi Arabia to Dammam, in a taxi through war-torn Beirut.
Bashar al-Assad: "All contracts signed with Russia are implemented"
Translation of an exclusive interview with Syrian President Bashar al_Assad:
“Have they not realised that since the Vietnam War, all the wars their predecessors have waged have failed? Have they not learned that they have gained nothing from these wars but the destruction of the countries they fought, which has had a destabilising effect on the Middle East and other parts of the world? Have they not comprehended that all of these wars have not made people in the region appreciate them or believe in their policies?”
City of the Lost
Life inside Za’atari, a camp for Syrian refugees just across the Jordanian border, where “the dispossession is absolute. Everyone has lost his country, his home, his equilibrium. Most have lost a family member or a friend. What is left is a kind of theatrical pride, the necessary performance of will.”
Makers of War
How a corporate network engineer became one of Aleppo’s most prolific weapons manufacturers.
The Price of Loyalty in Syria
On living in Syria as an Alawite loyalist.
Arming Syria’s Rebellion
In a Turkish hotel, veterans of the Libyan Revolution meet with their fractured Syrian counterparts to transfer know-how and heavy weaponry.
The Thin Red Line
Inside the White House debate over Syria.
Arts Politics World Movies & TV
Captured on Film
On dissident filmmakers in Syria.
Every Place Is Khalidiya
A trip to a grave in Damascus as shelling started in Homs.
The Land of Topless Minarets and Headless Little Girls
Elegy for Aleppo.
On the Lam in Lebanon
The Syrian civil war crosses into Lebanon.
A High Holy Whodunit
How and why did 200 pages of the Aleppo Codex, “the oldest, most complete, most accurate text of the Hebrew Bible,” go missing?
Highway to Homs
A motorcycle trip through Syria as it descends into chaos.
