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Medecins sans Frontieres’ Declan Barry, a U.K.-based pediatric physician, spent July and August in a small town in the north Syrian mountains, treating the members of one community affected by the war.
CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer has been reporting from Syria since 2006. She was nominated for an Emmy this year for a piece from Moadimiyeh, in which she came under shell attack by Syrian forces.
In the northern city of Raqqa, the condemned - some civilians, some soldiers, shabiha or alleged Assad collaborators - are brought blindfolded and handcuffed to the city square to be shot in the head in public.
As part of our effort to highlight civilian stories, below is a conversation between Syria Deeply and a Hama-based medical student in his 20s who used the pseudonym Adam for security reasons.
In Homs, an anonymous rebel fighter sits at his position for hours, waiting for any movement from his enemy. His finger is on the trigger of his rifle and he times his breathing to make sure he hits his target. .
On Sunday, six staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and one volunteer were kidnapped as their convoy traveled through northwest Syria.
Al Marj Settlement, Lebanon - Four million children are caught up in the war in Syria. Thirteen-year-old Rabia is one of them.
Yes, the U.N.-backed chemical weapons inspectors in Syria had only just started work on the ground when they won the Nobel Peace Prize this week.
Today, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on atrocities committed against civilians by rebel forces in coastal Latakia province.
Aleppo native Kinda Hibrawi is a painter and a cofounder of the Zeitouna Foundation, which provides arts education to Syrian children at the Atmeh refugee camp in Atmeh, Syria.
Syria’s soap operas, known as musalsalat, have a large following in the country. “These are basically series that last for a month through the end of Ramadan, or just until after Eid.
At 13, Hazem, who lives in Azaz, is one of Syria’s youngest teachers.
As part of our effort to highlight civilian stories, below is a conversation between Syria Deeply and a Syrian woman in her 30s who works in the Damascus office of an international organization.
None of Bilal Ahmad Bilal’s colleagues at the Damascus-based Arabic-language TV station Palestine Today were surprised that he was late for work on Sept. 13, 2011. .
Lebanon currently hosts 780,000 registered Syrian refugees, roughly one-sixth of its population of 4.4 million. .
Last week, the Atlantic Council convened a panel to “discuss prospects for a political settlement to Syria’s civil war.
With the first September rainstorms, Syrians have begun to prepare for winter.
This week chemical weapons inspectors began to destroy Syria’s stockpile, advancing one of the West’s key objectives in the country.
From their earliest days posting videos to YouTube, a number of Syrians have made their name as citizen journalists, their work appearing across international media, their stories redefining what it means to be an iReporter. .
Residents in the 14 besieged neighborhoods of this city are always careful not to turn on their flashlights when they walk at night. They run fast through the streets, avoiding sniper fire by following known safe routes through tunnels and trenches.
Since mid August, more than 60,000 Syrians have fled to Iraqi Kurdistan. Many have faced a long walk through sweltering heat from Damascus or Aleppo, with growing numbers coming from Al Hassaka governorate, in northeastern Syria, following increased fighting in the area.
This story was originally published in last week’s issue of VICE, based on the reporter’s trip to Raqqa in September 2013. .
At an event last week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) officially released the Emergency Red List of Syrian Cultural Objects at Risk.
Syrian rebels in Damascus say they hope to unify rebel factions under the command of the new “Army of Islam,” arguably the largest armed opposition alliance formed during the conflict. .
Thousands of people are missing in Syria, their whereabouts unknown.
In the wake of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting, Syrian state media showed the Assad government’s confidence.
Dr. A. Oussama Rifai, an Aleppo-born, U.S.-based nephrologist, speaks from a field hospital in Aleppo, nicknamed M-10 for security purposes.
Breaking a two and a half year deadlock, the U.N. Security Council unanimously backed a Syria resolution governing the handover and disposal of Syria’s chemical weapons.
In January 2012, Syria Conflict Monitor (SCM)’s five-person team began cataloguing the thousands of Free Syrian Army (FSA) videos used for recruitment purposes that were being downloaded to the Internet. .
Nada, a teacher, starts her classes by asking her third-grade students to express their feelings. She is trained to deal with children who exhibit signs of trauma after living in a war zone for over two years.
Free Syrian Army fighter Abu Ali stood grinning and waving at me with his right hand. Two of his middle fingers were missing.
At the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, speeches by leaders from Turkey, Jordan, Qatar and Lebanon tackled the crisis in Syria.
Old Homs is nearing 500 days of a siege, with no supply route in or out. Medical equipment and supplies are nearly impossible to find.
The al- Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), known colloquially by its Arabic acronym, ‘Daesh,’ has earned the disdain of Syrian civilians for its brutal practices and hard-line ideology.
Ahmed shares his stories from running Radio Alwan, a talk radio station in the Syrian city of Saraqeb. .
The porous border between Turkey and Syria has become increasingly dangerous. This month, the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Syria took control of the city of Azaz, near Turkey, and began working its way towards the border.
The diplomatic moves around Syria last week were preparation for the debate on Syria this week, as the U.N. General Assembly convenes in New York.
UNICEF released this dispatch today, highlighting the state of children fleeing Syria’s war. We’ve decided to share the statement in full. .
On Thursday, Raqqa’s Free Syrian Army (FSA) Division 11 raised a new flag: the black banner of the jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra.
This is the first in a series co-produced by Syria Deeply and Hyperallergic, investigating the visual and cultural responses to the crisis in Syria.
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