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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-female unit of FSA fighters. Full story

Sectarian Tension Builds in Northern Syria

Hajj’s story is just one example of Shia and Sunni Syrians cleaving down sectarian lines that mirror allegiance to the regime or to the opposition. Sitting in the salon of his family home in the Qoreitem district of Hayyan, Mustapha Outroo, 19, a student in the final year of seco… Full story

We Don’t Always Get the War We Want

It’s four in the morning on my 38th birthday, and I am staring up at the thatched roof of a small jungle clinic in Karen State of eastern Burma, the home of the world’s longest-running armed conflict—a 63-year civil war between the Burmese army and the ethnic Karen people. Full story

Syria's Kurdish Spring

A journey into the heart of the Kurdish struggle. Full story

Not All Syrians Side With the Rebels

I spoke to a group of Syrian expats in Paris about how Assad might not be the only one to blame in this war. Full story

Nothing Stops Syrian Basketball

Coaching a youth sports team is a tough task as it is, but it gets much, much harder when the families of the players are dying in a civil war. Full story

Welcome to the Syria Issue

Today we are proud to present the first bits of The Syria Issue, an entire magazine dedicated to one of the oldest and most important cradles of civilization in the world that has been decimated by brutal internal strife for the past year and a half. Full story

Civil War, Cowabunga!

For the last three years or so, photographer Yannik Willing has been traveling back and forth between Hamburg and Sri Lanka, documenting the latter's transformation from war-ridden hellhole into a luxury holiday destination for a project called Before Tomorrow. Full story

World Peace Update

World Peace Update

Has the human race managed to settle all its differences yet? Full story

Hello, I'm A Civil War Reenactor!

Excuse Me, I Mean a Progressive, Campaign Living Historian

Bill Cross is a Civil War reenactor with a wide range of battles, ranks, and personae under his belt and the current treasurer of the Rowdy Pards “progressive, campaign living history society.” Full story