Arab backers stepping up support after fruitless peace talks conclude
Free Syrian Army
Syria’s Health Crisis Spirals As Doctors Flee
More than half of the country’s physicians have left just when they are most needed
Is the Assad Regime in League with al-Qaeda?
Opposition groups and their Western backers say that despite claims to be fighting terrorism, Bashar Assad is colluding with extremists
Syrian Rebels Illegally Recruiting From Jordan Refugee Camp
Activities threaten UN’s humanitarian mission
Al-Qaeda-Allied Fighters Capture Rebel-Held Syrian Border Town
Islamist faction takes control of town from the Free Syrian Army
The Women Warriors of the Free Syrian Army
Emerging from the shadows of their secret command outpost in the war-torn city of Aleppo, these members of an all-female fighting unit posed for portraits.
Portrait of a Lady: A Female Syrian Rebel Speaks to TIME
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 headscarf, worn by women in …
While U.S. Recognizes Syrian Opposition, It Designates One Anti-Assad Group as ‘Terrorist’
One of the most effective anti-Assad militias has just been designated a “terrorist” organization by the U.S. Will that help or hobble the exiled opposition’s attempt to take control of the fight against the regime in Damascus?
Syria’s Cease-Fire: A Peace Process for Pessimists
Few expect that the four-day truce in Syria’s civil war scheduled to take effect Friday will hold, much less serve as the prelude to a more sustained peace process.
Syria’s Secular and Islamist Rebels: Who Are the Saudis and the Qataris Arming?
Out of Istanbul, the two Gulf states play a game of conflicting favorites that is getting in the way creating a unified rebel force to topple the Assad regime
The Making of a Syrian Rebel: The Saga of Abboud Barri
Abboud Barri’s callousness is more pronounced than most, but his story reflects the universal struggle to preserve humanity in the face of war
Five Reasons Why the Assad Regime Survives
Syria’s conflict has morphed into a civil war whose fault lines and consequences are quite different from other Arab rebellions
“What you are seeing is the appetizer: the main course is yet to come.”