Syria Archives

Syria

Moving Portraits

Auto Traitor

From a complaint filed in Texas in December by Mark Oberholtzer, the owner of Mark-1 Plumbing, against Charlie Thomas Ford, a car dealer.

Con Voyage

by Wolfgang Bauer, Sarah Pybus,

From Crossing the Sea, by Wolfgang Bauer. In 2014, Bauer, a German journalist for Die Zeit, traveled undercover with Syrian refugees on a boat headed from Egypt to Greece. His…

We Don’t Have Rights, But We Are Alive

by James Harkin,

A gay soldier in Assad’s army

Escaping Wars and Waves

by Olivier Kugler,

Disunified Front

by Charles Glass,

The chaotic, underfunded battle against the Islamic State

A Special Relationship

by Andrew Cockburn,

The United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again

Mountain Ambush

by Andrew Cockburn,

"Looking at the detailed Russian timeline of what happened," says defense analyst Pierre Sprey, "I'd say the evidence looks pretty strong that the Turks were setting up an ambush."

Invisible City

by Justin E. H. Smith,

By Justin E. H. Smith, from a work in progress. Smith’s fourth book, The Philosopher: A History in Six Types (Princeton), will be published in June. At the end of August, the oldest…

How the Islamic State Was Won

by James Harkin,

The Islamic State's influence grows; James Harkin interviews its fighters, enemies, and potential recruits

Vacay-47

From blog posts on Paladin of Jihad offering advice for Western Muslims preparing to migrate (or “make hijra”) to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State.