The Battle for Syria

September 18, 2012

FRONTLINE journeys to the heart of the Syrian insurgency

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The Battle For SyriaJourney inside the heart of the Syrian insurgency with rebels waging a full-scale assault
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The Regime RespondsEighteen months into the rebellion, how is Bashar al-Assad holding on to power?

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Is Kerry’s Syrian Aid Shift a Game Changer?

Earlier this week, Moaz al-Khatib, the leader of the Syrian opposition coalition, had no intention of meeting with leaders from the U.S. and Europe at today’s “Friends of Syria” gathering in Rome.

How Many People Are Dying in Syria?

The U.N. says Syria’s rising death toll is approaching a staggering 70,000 people killed since the rebellion broke out almost two years ago. But determining an accurate death count amidst a conflict is fraught with challenges.

How To Form a Rebel Battalion in Syria

Reporting from Syria, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad breaks it down in “five easy lessons.”

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on Syria’s Foreign Fighters

Jihadi fighters who go to Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan have to cross many hurdles, dodging intelligence agents and changing … Continue reading

Live Chat Wed. 11 A.M. ET: Behind Syria’s Front Lines

Join a live chat about “The Battle for Syria” on 9/19 at 11 a.m. ET with Jamie Doran, the film’s producer, and Blake Hounshell, managing editor of Foreign Policy. You can leave a question now.

Syria’s Shocking Civilian Death Toll

August was the deadliest month since the Syrian rebellion began a year-and a-half ago — and more deadly for civilians than the bloodiest months in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as the recent uprisings in the Middle East.

Exiled Dissident Ausama Monajed: “The End of the Regime Is Very Close”

As a student in Syria under the Assad regime, Ausama Monajed was arrested and interrogated by security forces several times. The last time he was detained was in 2004, at which point he says he had no choice but to leave the country.

Joshua Landis: “I Don’t See Light at the End of the Tunnel.”

The director of the Center for Middle East Studies and an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma, Joshua Landis writes an influential blog called Syria Comment. He warns there is a very high potential that Syria’s uprising “will turn into a very dark and tough ethnic sectarian fight, the way it did in Lebanon and Iraq.”

Anthony Shadid: Time Is Running Out for a Better Future for Syria

“We’re seeing a government that relies almost solely on repression to keep itself in power,” The New York Times’ Beirut bureau chief tells FRONTLINE.

Anthony Shadid: “In Assad’s Syria, There Is No Imagination”

The country is “rendered in their image, haunted by their phobias and ordered by their machinations,” Anthony Shadid writes of the Assad regime.

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