syrian revolution

  • The Young Men Who Started Syria's Revolution Speak About Daraa, Where It All Began

    The high school kids who wrote an anti-Assad dig on a wall in Daraa didn't imagine that their act of defiance would kickstart the revolution that is devastating the Middle East.

  • The Destruction of Daraa

    VICE went to Daraa to see out where the revolution started, where it continues, and where the loss to the people of Syria can be seen on every bombed-out street corner.

  • Syria's Illegal Oil Wells

    For four decades, the al-Assad regime struck deals with Western oil companies that made Syria into a bona fide oil-exporting nation—until 2011's international sanctions in response to the regime's crackdown on the antigovernment protests.

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