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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) may be activating sleeper cells in Lebanon, which fears further spillover from wars in Iraq and Syria. Three bombers have struck over the last week.
As the holy month commences, the extremist group is clamping down further on its Syrian stronghold.
Syrian regime gains in the strategic Qalamoun area face a counterattack by rebels holed up across the border in Lebanon. Post-Ottoman boundaries are dissolving in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq.
An approaching drought and a water infrastructure largely destroyed by fighting are contributing to further internal displacement, illness and a sanitation crisis.
We look at the prospects of foreign intervention to check ISIS, particularly the chances that the U.S. will get further involved.
Residents say the group is training young boys and teenagers in the ways of both its laws and fighting methods.
Our experts analyze why the move to become the Islamic State is significant – and whether anyone will take al-Baghdadi seriously as caliph.
Alaa begs on a downtown bridge, Rania makes $1.50 on an average day from passersby and Mohammed asks for change alongside his handicapped father. In each case, they are responsible for a family’s financial survival.
We examine the potential for further collaboration between the two, their strengths and whether ISIS will be able to bring Jabhat al-Nusra and other factions under its umbrella – creating one cohesive unit.
As reports emerged that ISIS has been gaining recruits from Jabhat al-Nusra and other extremist groups, concern spread in Damascus that its power could grow faster than expected – possibly requiring intervention.
Marah lives in a city under siege. She was 15 years old when the uprising began. This is the tenth in her series of memoirs of living in the midst of Syria’s war.
Though Hassan Nasrallah says he’s willing to “sacrifice for Iraq five times as much as we sacrificed in Syria,” his group’s Shiite support base views the fight against ISIS as a tangent.
In rural Idlib, marriage offices are fixing people up – but some say they’re exploiting the institution of marriage for wartime financial gain.
Above ground, rebels are exposed to Bashar al-Assad’s superior military power. But they say they are safe in tunnels and can travel through them freely, without fear of regime bombs and snipers.
As the OPCW declares that Assad’s chemicals have been removed and the U.S. claims a policy victory, experts caution that Syria’s government could be retaining parts of its cache – not to mention chlorine.
Our experts weigh in on why this weekend’s attack signals a change in tensions between Syria and its Israeli neighbors.
At War on the Rocks, Karen Leigh and Nathaniel Rosenblatt look at how Syria’s growing IDP crisis could lead to a proliferation of extremism.
To give you an overview of the latest news this week, we’ve organized the latest Syrian developments in a curated summary.
The group says the PYD, which operates autonomously in three cantons, has been recruiting child soldiers and detaining those who oppose its authority.
Marah lives in a city under siege. She was 15 years old when the uprising began. This is the ninth in her series of memoirs of living in the midst of Syria’s war.
Experts from CSIS, the Brookings Institute, Inegma and Uticensis Risk on how the group’s Iraq offensive – and any Iranian involvement – will impact Syria’s war.
Living on farms in the mountains near the village, they say they’re still too scared to return home.
The trafficking of young men as soldiers is on the rise. One mother who thought her 16-year-old was being taken to find medical treatment – until she saw a photo of him in uniform.
Syria’s regime has relied on Shiite fighters to claw back territory from rebels. A draw down of Iraqi Shiites to defend the homeland from ISIS militants puts more strain on Hezbollah.
By chronicling their time in Syria on Twitter, Instagram, and other websites, extremists are able to indoctrinate young Western Muslims to their cause in a new way.
As the extremist group makes advances in Iraq, residents of Raqqa, its Syrian stronghold, say life under its rule is harsh – with no end in sight.
YPG fighters weigh their options, including a Kurdish coalition and cooperation with the Nusra Front, ahead of ISIS’s likely advance through eastern Syria.
As part of a collaboration between Syria Deeply and Rookie, we’re publishing the memoirs of a teenage girl living in the midst of Syria’s war. Marah, as she’s chosen to be known, lives in a city under siege. She was 15 years old when the uprising began. This is the eighth in her series of articles.
To give you an overview of the latest news this week, we’ve organized the latest Syrian developments in a curated summary.
Analysts say Kurds, the Islamic Front and Jabhat al-Nusra are forming a coalition. Will the spoils of its Iraq offensive give ISIS the necessary momentum in Deir Ezzor?
Will humanitarian organizations be forced to divert aid earmarked for Syria to Iraq’s new refugee crisis?
Financial and military gains made by the group in Iraq could help it take control of Deir Ezzor and push into northern provinces it had been forces to abandon.
One of the country’s most sophisticated remaining hospitals closing its doors. Syrian doctors say it will have a devastating effect on locals in Aleppo.
Arab families living on Yezidi land are targeted. What does it mean for the fight between ISIS and the YPG?
The Istanbul-based reporter talks about his latest trip into Syria, to IDP camps near the Turkish border. People there, he says, “are living in squalor.”.
The U.N. says it’s received just 28 percent of the $6.5 billion they need for 2014. But international donors say they’re maxed out. With funds limited, how are global aid organizations restructuring their Syria programs?
With canvas in short supply, Akram Abou al-Fouz paints on the shells scattered around his neighborhood in Douma. “We had shelling showers, so to speak,” he says.
Qamishli festival aims to bring the arts back to Syria.
After fighting with Ahrar al-Sham, Liwa al-Tawhid and then the Free Syrian Army, one 24-year-old readjusts to “normalcy” in the mountains of Qalamoun.
The Lebanese militant group has backed Assad since the start of the war. But at what price to its own cause?
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