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Arming Syria’s Rebellion: How Libyan Weapons and Know-How Reach Anti-Assad...
The beefy Libyan revolutionary field commander turned politician rose from the beige couch to greet his new Syrian guest, who pulled up a chair to join the two other Syrian men seated in a semicircle...
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The Shadow War Behind Syria’s Rebellion: Foreign Backers Jockey for Influence...
While the diplomatic grouping known as the Friends of Syria met in the Jordanian capital Amman on Wednesday to discuss a U.S.-Russian plan for peace talks, a low-key yet perhaps equally important...
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How Syria’s Rebels Aren’t Winning the War: The Anatomy of a Battle
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...
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In Syria, the Jihadist Campaign for Hearts and Minds
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...
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In Syria, the Rebels Have Begun to Fight Among Themselves
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 swath of eastern Syria called the Jazira, a region that...
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How Islamist Rebels in Syria Are Ruling a Fallen Provincial Capital
Raqqa city was once dubbed the “hotel of the revolution” because it became home to hundreds of thousands of people displaced from fighting elsewhere who sought refuge in a place considered firmly in...
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Syria’s Many Militias: Inside the Chaos of the Anti-Assad Rebellion
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...
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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...
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On Patrol in Syria with Assad’s Most Diligent Enemies
Hajji Zaki crept along the partially destroyed unpainted walls in the hallway of the single-storey house, ducking to stay out of sight of regime snipers stationed at a large outpost some 500 m away....
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Ground War: Syria’s Rebels Prepare to Take a Province from Assad
It was pomegranate season when the battle for Wadi Deif began in mid-October. Like so many rebel offensives, the fight for the Syrian military base, just east of the devastated city of Maaret Numan and...
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Interview with Official of Jabhat al-Nusra, Syria’s Islamist Militia Group
Abu Adnan smirked from behind his black balaclava, his auburn whiskers peeking through the fabric as the corners of his mouth rose. A religious scholar and Shari‘a law official in Jabhat al-Nusra’s...
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The Confessions of a Sniper: A Rebel Gunman in Aleppo and His Conscience
To the other men in his Free Syrian Army unit, he’s simply known as the Sniper, a 21-year-old army-trained sharpshooter who defected on Feb. 21 and joined their ranks. Few of his colleagues know his...
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Aleppo’s Deadly Stalemate: A Visit to Syria’s Divided Metropolis
Only stray cats have the courage to roam the streets of this part of Syria’s largest city. As felines freely pick their way through rubble and garbage, human beings dart from corner to corner, anxious...
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Lebanon’s Bad Habit: Staring into the Abyss Too Often
Lebanon has seen bad days before. And while the bombing in Beirut on Friday takes place in the context of a changing Middle East — and a chaotic neighboring Syria — it may still be the kind of abysmal...
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Syria’s Tribes Will Rise Again: An Exiled Chief Remains Unbowed
The leader of the 1.2 million strong Baggara believes in an eventual resurgence despite the Assad regime’s systematic destruction of the underpinnings of tribal society
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Who Will the Tribes Back in Syria’s Civil War?
Tribes dominate the rich agricultural belt that is now a huge prize in the battle for Syria. Can they affect the tide of battle?
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Syria’s Up-and-Coming Rebels: Who Are the Farouq Brigades?
The four men had journeyed for seven hours by bus from the southern Turkish city of Antakya for a meeting they considered crucial. It was about to take place on the patio of a three-star hotel in the...
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Turkey Retaliates Against Syria: How It May Give Rebel Soldiers Cover to Expand
It was not the first time Syria artillery has hit the Turkish town of Akcakale. But this time Ankara struck back—and the attendant show of force may just give the enemies of Bashar Assad a chance to...
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The Damascus Double Bombing: Is the Syrian Capital Back in Play?
With Aleppo still being battled over, the rebels may just be signaling to Assad that he is well within their sights
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Syria’s Secular and Islamist Rebels: Who Are the Saudis and the Qataris Arming?
Vast swaths of northern Syria, especially in the province of Idlib, have slipped out of the hands of President Bashar Assad, if not quite out of his reach. The area is now a de facto liberated zone,...
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