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Syria

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

Refuge: One Syrian Family’s Long Odyssey to Georgia

Of the 4.5 million Syrians who have fled their nation’s bloody civil war, fewer than 3,000 have made it to America. This is one family’s story.

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Previously: Matthew Shaer on the Longform Podcast

Matthew Shaer Atlanta Magazine May 2016 20min Permalink

World Media

How It Ends

On settling in Los Angeles after life as a war correspondent in the Middle East.

Kelly McEvers Lenny Apr 2016 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

Journey to Jihad

The story of Jejoen Bontinck, a Belgian teen-ager who travelled to Syria to fight with radical Islamists.

Ben Taub New Yorker Jun 2015 35min Permalink

Reprints Crime World

Once Upon a Jihad

Life and death with the young and radicalized.

Alex Perry Newsweek Jan 2015 55min Permalink

Why Is It So Difficult for Syrian Refugees to Get Into the U.S.?

More than 4 million Syrians have fled the war. 2,647 have made it to the United States.

Eliza Griswold New York Times Magazine Jan 2016 30min Permalink

World

Behind the Black Flag: The Recruitment of an ISIS Killer

Since the Syrian rebel leader Hassan Aboud joined ISIS, taking with him fighters and weapons, he has been behind a sprawling mix of battlefield action and crime.

C.J. Chivers New York Times Dec 2015 Permalink

A Dream of Secular Utopia in ISIS' Backyard

On a thin sliver of land called Rojava where “rules of the neighboring ISIS caliphate ha[ve] been inverted,” a Kurdish Syrian college trains its future autonomous leaders.

Wes Enzinna New York Times Magazine Nov 2015 30min Permalink

World Religion

ISIS Women and Enforcers in Syria Recount Collaboration, Anguish and Escape

They were cousins who grow up in Raqqa amidst parties, beaches, even bikinis. They married ISIS fighters to protect their families, then became morality policers.

Azadeh Moaveni New York Times Nov 2015 Permalink

World

The Displaced: Hana

The daily life and dwindling hopes of a 12-year-old Syrian refugee.

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Susan Dominus on the Longform Podcast

Susan Dominus New York Times Magazine Nov 2015 Permalink

World

Ten Borders

A Syrian refugee’s epic escape route through Europe.

Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Oct 2015 35min 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

Meet the American Vigilantes Who Are Fighting ISIS

The ragtag group of fighters from America and Europe who joined the fight against extremists in Syria don’t seem to know what they are doing.

Jennifer Percy New York Times Magazine Sep 2015 15min Permalink

World Media

The Road to Damascus

While a Marine stationed in Afghanistan, Austin Tice decided he wanted to become a war photographer. He entered Syria and filed stories for McClatchy and the Washington Post. Then he disappeared.

Sonia Smith Texas Monthly Oct 2015 35min Permalink

World

The Journey

A refugee’s odyssey from Syria to Sweden.

Patrick Kingsley The Guardian Jun 2015 Permalink

Crime

Five Hostages

Feeling abandoned by America, families fight to save their children from ISIS.

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Lawrence Wright on the Longform Podcast

Lawrence Wright New Yorker Jul 2015 1h25min Permalink

World

My ISIS Boyfriend

A French reporter went undercover as potential “caliphette” and recieved a marriage proposal from a senior ISIS commander.

Margarette Driscoll Sunday Times of London Mar 2015 10min 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

World

Terrorist or Freedom Fighter?

How one young American veteran got caught in the cobweb of Syrian rebel politics.

Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Feb 2015 35min Permalink

World

The Jihad Cult: Why Young Germans Are Answering Call to Holy War

More than 500 Germans, including a former rapper named Deso Dogg, have joined ISIS in Syria.

Der Spiegel Nov 2014 10min Permalink

My Captivity

An American journalist on being kidnapped, tortured and released in Syria.

Theo Padnos New York Times Magazine Oct 2014 35min Permalink

Crime World

The Horror Before the Beheadings

Those who survived tell the story of twenty three ISIS hostages’ shared months of brutal captivity before some were ransomed and some executed.

Rukmini Callimachi New York Times Oct 2014 20min Permalink

World

The Lessons of Atmeh

The complexities of offering aid to a Syrian refugee camp.

Joshua Hersh VQR Oct 2014 30min Permalink

Whoever Saves a Life

Seven days with Syria’s first responders.

Matthieu Aikins Matter Sep 2014 35min Permalink

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