The short message screeched over a walkie-talkie, prompting the half a dozen rebels in the room who had been lounging on flat mattresses and drinking tea to jump to their feet, grab their guns and run out of the door.
It was …
RAQQA, Syria — The dusty, battered navy blue Subaru sedan with a blown-out rear window rolled up to the street corner in Raqqa City.
The bespectacled Jabhat al-Nusra fighter behind the wheel was five minutes early for our 9 …
TAL ABYAD, Syria – The day started like a regular Sunday for Mohammad al-Daher, better known as Abu Azzam, the commander of the rebel Farouq Brigades in the vast swathe of eastern Syria called the Jazira, a region that …
ANTAKYA, Turkey — Syria‘s rebels have been locked in a bloody uprising against the regime of President Bashar Assad for nearly two years.
But for 27 days after it was formed last December, the Free Syrian Army’s Military …
ABU DUHOOR, Syria — Em Joseph doesn’t really look like many of the women in this socially conservative stretch of Syria‘s Idlib province, and she certainly doesn’t act like them. Instead of the traditional hijab, or …
