Reporters Without Borders

“Syria: the forbidden witnesses of the Assad regime” — New RSF documentary shows what it was like to be a reporter under one of the world’s worst crackdowns on journalism

Assad’s regime, journalists in Syria were spied upon, put behind bars, abducted and even killed.  After the fall of the dictatorship on 8 December 2024, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) produced a ...
Homeland Security Today

Syria Documentary on Raising Jihadists Has Marked Filmmaker for Death

There’s a sequence early on in Talal Derki’s documentary Of Fathers and Sons that makes your blood run cold. A cheerful preteen boy finds a bird and shows it to his father. The father recommends that ...
PBS

As Syrian Rebels Re-Ignite Conflict And Take Aleppo, Revisit FRONTLINE’s Reporting

After years of stalemate, the conflict in Syria has erupted once again, with forces opposed to the regime of Bashar al-Assad seizing control of territory in northwestern Syria, including much of the ...
PBS

ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)

FRONTLINE first reported on the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in early February 2014, months before the group made international headlines declaring its own caliphate. Since then, ...
Time

The History That Syria’s New Leaders Will Need to Overcome

A broken portrait of Bashar al-Assad is seen on on the ground at Mezzah Military Airport on Dec. 16, 2024, in Damascus. A broken portrait of Bashar al-Assad is seen on on the ground at Mezzah Military ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

OPINION | JIM LANCASTER: Syria and history

With the stunning change of leadership in Syria and the end of a 50-year reign of the Assad regime, the significance of religious history in Syria shouldn't be overlooked. Most Syrians are now Muslim, ...