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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.
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.
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.
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.
Will humanitarian organizations be forced to divert aid earmarked for Syria to Iraq’s new refugee crisis?
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?
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.”.
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.
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?
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 Violation Documentation Center says more than 200,000 Syrians have been arrested since the start of the war. Experts say those in regime-operated detention centers are subject to torture — and 11,000 have died.
The Lebanese militant group has backed Assad since the start of the war. But at what price to its own cause?
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 seventh in her series of articles.
In a small city near Damascus, water trade on the black market is thriving. But as residents pay high prices for containers that are often contaminated, officials say shortages will continue until winter.
We ask Syrians across the country for their views on yesterday’s election, the country’s first multi-candidate poll in more than four decades.
Patrick Baz oversees the news agency’s photo coverage of the Middle East, including Syria’s three-year-long war. Here, he discusses verifying images and working with local photographers.
Meet the two (other) candidates running in the presidential election set to keep Bashar al-Assad in power.
Experts say the vote will affect not only the Syrian president but his allies, the opposition and the regime’s standing among global powers.
This week’s presidential elections are the first national vote held in decades. We talk to pro-government and pro-rebel Syrians from across the country, asking who they’re voting for and why.
Tailors and store owners report a massive increase in sales of military-themed clothing as pro-government civilians don everything from camouflage dresses to generals’ uniforms in support of Assad.
As the number of female-led households grows in Syria, the LA Times’s Raja Abdulrahim, in Anadan, speaks to widowed women.
Marah lives in a city under siege. She was 15 years old when the uprising began. This is the sixth in her series of memoirs of living in the midst of Syria’s war.
In Idlib province, a journalist follows a group of FSA fighters returning from what they say is U.S.-led military instruction.
Lauren Wolfe explains why Syria’s mental health problem is getting bigger — and worse.
The province, which has been the site of heavy fighting between extremist factions, faces polio’s wrath 14 years after it last appeared in Syria.
Analysts attribute the surge in violence to Syria’s June 3 presidential election – specifically, a desire to disrupt it, as rebel forces and opposition groups criticize the poll as a farce.
After almost a month without water and power, she says her family’s lifestyle is “primitive.”.
In a country where team allegiance can run deeper than ethnic, religious and political divisions, many civilians might not have the money to watch next month’s televised World Cup action.
Insights on the state of Syria’s Christian community and damage seen on the overland journey between the capital and other regime-held areas of the country.
To give you an overview of the latest news this week, we’ve organized the latest Syrian developments in a curated summary.
Local Sharia authorities storm a pre-wedding party, detaining revelers who aren’t wearing Islamic dress. The fallout could be widespread in Syria’s ISIS-dominated east.
Across the country, an increasing number of would-be soldiers are ducking Syria’s 21-month mandate. Instead, they’re hiding out – or taking up arms for the opposition.
Syrians in the early stages of their careers or finishing up university education have lost critical professional years. Personal dreams are also on hold.
Is the regime’s offensive in Deraa pegged to an increase in tensions between rebel factions here?
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