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Tagging the Revolution in Northern Syria

Graffiti found on the crumbling walls and facades of Azaz’s cityscape—the majority of which are scrawled with a focus on sentiment rather than aesthetics—pay homage to the town’s experience of conflict and to the wider geo-political discourse that surrounds the Syrian conflict. Full story

Meet the Ladies of the Free Syrian Army

They Have Guns, Dead Families, and Nothing to Lose

Just a few hundred meters from the Turkey-Syria border lies Atmeh, a once quiet farm town that has become a safe haven for the Free Syrian Army. Fifteen thousand Syrians roam freely, displaced by the civil war. There’s also Auntie Mahmoud’s house—a meeting place for a local all-f… Full story

Displaced Verse

A Controversial Syrian Poet Finds Asylum in Mexico City

In Syria, controversial poet Mohamad Alaaedin Abdul Moulawas earned a reputation as a sort of Arabic Henry Miller. Mohamad now lives in Mexico. He fled Syria just before the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s forces decided to turn his country into a pile of rubble. Full story

Our Syria Correspondent Is Doing a Reddit AMA Today

VICE Syria correspondent and veteran conflict photographer Robert King will be on Reddit tomorrow at 10:30 AM to answer your questions about what he's witnessed in his coverage of Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Gaza, Mexico, Iraq, and now the year-long bloody civil war in Syria. Full story

I Left My Family for the Free Syrian Army

When civil war broke out last March, Loubna Mrie was persuaded by friends to smuggle bullets for the rebels of the Free Syrian Army in Damascus. Full story

The Man Who Was There

Robert King Is the Bulletproof Ghost of Conflict Reporting

He's Been Covering the FSA So Long They Named Him “Haji Memphis”

The situation in Syria is like many others throughout history—the eventual fallout of a religious minority ruling and oppressing the majority. I’m just trying to record it all, and I’ll be back soon. That’s the best I can do. Full story

Assad Bombed the Dar al Shifa Hospital

Today, the Dar al Shifa field hospital in Aleppo—which was the subject of the VICE documentary Ground Zero Syria: Aleppo Field Hospital—was bombed into rubble by Assad’s MIG jets. Full story

Bob Odenkirk’s Page

Syria: Bombs Away

To Investment and Development!

President Bashar al-Assad and the remaining Syrian leaders want to invite your investment, commerce, and tourism as we say BOMBS AWAY to speculation and development in Syria—"A country exploding with opportunity... and bombs!!" Full story

Can Films Right the "Conspiracy Against Syria"?

Najdat Anzour is a leading Syrian director who made news in 2007, when it was announced that he was slated to direct a film based on a screenplay by Muammar Gaddafi. I dialed up Najdat to talk about the conflict in Syria. Full story

Ground Zero

Syria - Under Fire for Bread in Aleppo

Every day the men, women, and children of Aleppo, Syria, must risk their lives to stand in line and hope that they can buy a kilo of bread to survive another day. Many of the bread factories in Aleppo have been destroyed amidst fighting between the Free Syrian Army and Assad's tr… Full story