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Last December, the former al Qaeda leader, Ahmed al-Shara, made history as he led a loose coalition of rebels into downtown Damascus. The Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, promptly fled in a helicopter. In January, al-Shara appointed himself the country’s new president. Lately, he’s been having earnest sit downs with David …

In the fall of 2012, as I was planning out a reporting trip into Syria, one of the story ideas I hoped to sell on to editors back home involved retracing the itinerary of Austin Tice, a fellow freelancer who had disappeared somewhere in Syria about eight weeks earlier. One …

This week has brought some good news and some bad news, as Jon Stewart recounted on a new episode of The Daily Show last night. The late-night host spent the majority of his monologue segment celebrating the news that President Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria had fallen to rebel forces, …

In 2013, I met a 12-year-old Syrian girl who had been shot in the back by a government sniper near Aleppo. Her name was Maysaa, and she was paralyzed from the waist down. “Am I a terrorist? Are all of the children they kill terrorists?” she asked, recuperating in an …

“At long last, the Assad regime has fallen,” President Joe Biden said in a speech from the Roosevelt Room of the White House. The president’s remarks on Sunday followed the news that President Bashar al-Assad’s government had fallen to rebel forces who united from across the nation against the brutal …

An Islamic militant group has made rapid advances across northwest Syria, seizing territory from the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in a dramatic evolution of a thirteen-year-old conflict that had appeared to be frozen. The swift gains by the fighting group Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham, also known as HTS, began with …

Metallica‘s non-profit foundation All Within My Hands has made a $250,000 donation toward relief efforts following the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. In the few days since the natural disaster struck, the death toll has reached more than 41,000 individuals, with thousands more injured and displaced. “We’re at a …

The death toll in Turkey and Syria has climbed to over 5,000 while rescue efforts have been hindered by freezing temperatures one day after two massive earthquakes hit near Gaziantep in southern Turkey. As The New York Times reported Tuesday, Feb. 7, at least 3,700 people are dead in Turkey …

As buildings collapsed under the weight of infrastructural damage following two massive earthquakes in Turkey and northern Syria on Monday, Feb. 6, thousands were left dead, with others trapped beneath the rubble as the death toll continues to rise steadily. At the time of publication, at least 5,000 people are …

Roger Waters does not want you to ignore his politics. The 79-year-old’s This Is Not A Drill Tour opens with Waters imitating a plummy British announcer and telling the audience: “If you’re one of those ‘I love Pink Floyd but I can’t stand Roger’s politics’ people, you might do well …