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The Battle for Aleppo
VICE filmmaker Medyan Dairieh followed the volunteers of Aleppo's Civil Defense, a civilian rescue organization, who risk their lives daily as the first responders to government airstrikes in a city seemingly abandoned by the outside world.
Fourteen Ukrainian Soldiers Died While Fighting Pro-Russia Separatists
And more bad news from across the world.
How Syria's Messy Borders Complicate Journalism, Aid Work, and Politics
The Syrian civil war has made going from country to country in the Middle East a messy business.
Syrian Refugees Are Stuck at the Border with Jordan and Can't Get Out
Syria’s province of Dera’a is referred to as the birthplace of the revolution, but for displaced people, it's the end of the road.
Pakistani Families Resort to Risky Measures to Vaccinate Their Children Against Polio
And other stories from across the globe.
Canada May Be Vulnerable to Syrian Extremists
Canada is facing direct threats from Syrian extremists for the first time in relation to the ongoing war. We asked a former CSIS senior official and current counterterrorism expert how concerned our neighbor up north should be.
Syria: Wolves in the Valley
VICE News embedded with the SRF as they reimposed their rule over the country's northwestern Idlib province. What we witnessed was a brief window into a complex and morally ambiguous conflict with no end in sight.
American Jihadist: Eric Harroun In His Own Words
American Eric Harroun traveled to Syria to fight against the Assad regime and would later be arrested by the FBI. This is Eric's story.
Syria: The Long War - Part 1
A VICE News crew—the first western journalists to be in northwest Syria for months—has embedded with Syrian rebels fighting the renegade al Qaeda splinter group ISIS, and is following their rapid advance across Idlib province, which until yesterday was...
Bashar's Bangerz
While the Western world spent the last few months debating Miley Cyrus’s right to gyrate on a teddy bear, Syrian citizens continued a three-year long discussion about Syrian actresses and soap operas’ public disapproval of President Bashar al-Assad.
The Pillaging of the Umayyad Mosque
On October 13, 2012, Aleppo's Umayyad Mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the oldest mosques in the world, suffered extensive fire damage amid fierce fighting between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and the Free Syrian Army. Photographer...
Syria
Last year VICE commissioned photographer and videographer Robert King to document the civil war that has been ravaging Syria for the past two years.