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Assad

Target: Journalist

How the Assad regime tracked and killed Marie Colvin for reporting on war crimes in Syria.

Ryan Gallagher, Johnny Dwyer The Intercept Apr 2018 15min Permalink

World

The Syria Catastrophe

A primer.

Richard Beck n+1 Apr 2017 25min Permalink

The Graffiti Kids Who Sparked the Syrian War

It started as simple teenage rebellion but ended up tearing Syria apart, setting in motion events that continue to rock the Middle East — and the world. The boys behind the graffiti would become unlikely revolutionaries and reluctant refugees. Not all of them would survive the upheaval they helped unleash.

Mark MacKinnon The Globe and Mail Dec 2016 55min Permalink

The Shadow Doctors

Over the past five years, the Syrian government has killed almost 700 medical personnel. Inside the race to spread medical knowledge as the Assad regime erases it.

Ben Taub New Yorker Jun 2016 25min Permalink

World

The Assad Files

How war-crimes investigators captured top-secret documents tying the Syrian regime to mass murder.

Ben Taub New Yorker Apr 2016 40min Permalink

World

"They Were Torturing to Kill"

The photographs that Caesar, a Syrian military photographer, smuggled out of Assad’s death dungeons.

Garance le Caisne The Guardian Oct 2015 20min Permalink

Crime World

The Hezbollah Connection

Reconstructing the investigation into Rafik Hariri’s assassination, for which five men stand trial in absentia.

Ronen Bergman New York Times Magazine Feb 2015 35min Permalink

The Price of Loyalty in Syria

On living in Syria as an Alawite loyalist.

Robert F. Worth New York Times Magazine Jun 2013 20min Permalink

World

On the Lam in Lebanon

The Syrian civil war crosses into Lebanon.

Mitchell Prothero Vice Nov 2012 10min Permalink