Syria

Videos

The War On Drugs
9:58

How Speed is Fuelling Wars in The Middle East

The Syrian government have become some of the world’s biggest amphetamine dealers – flooding the Middle East with the drug Captagon to finance their war machine.
Terror / Clip
4:54

Fighting ISIS

In Iraq, Suroosh speaks to the soldiers on the frontline of the fight against ISIS and experiences the violence of the conflict firsthand.
Terror / Clip
4:59

The Formation of the Islamic State

Suroosh tracks the origins of the Islamic State from an American prison camp in Iraq and a 1400 year old religious prophecy.
Foreign Fighter Diary
4:29

Safer at War than at Home | Diary of a Combat Medic (Part 3/3)

This is Swedish Kurdish combat medic Firat’s video diary from when he returned to Syria to fight to last battle against ISIS.
Foreign Fighter Diary / Clip
4:15

Interrogating Enemy Combatants | Diary of a Combat Medic (Part 2/3)

This is Swedish Kurdish combat medic Firat’s video diary from when he returned to Syria to fight to last battle against ISIS.
Foreign Fighter Diary / Clip
6:23

What to Pack for War in Syria | Diary of a Combat Medic (Part 1/3)

This is Swedish Kurdish combat medic Firat’s video diary from when he returned to Syria to fight to last battle against ISIS.
VICE Shorties
2:45

The Syrian Amputee Football Team

A football team made up of amputees, having lost their limbs in Russian airstrikes, have teamed up with Omayya sports club to celebrate the World Cup in their own way.
VICE News Shorts / Extra Scene
5:47

This Palestinian and Syrian duo race to make a fake news game in 54 hours

VICE News meets two video game developers from Palestine and Syria, who teamed up to make a video game about fake news.
VICE Shorties
5:29

Ultimate Sacrifice: The Brits Fighting ISIS in Syria

Since 2014 dozens of foreign volunteers have fought alongside Kurdish forces in northern Syria against the Islamic State. Mehmet Aksoy, a British Kurd, was killed by IS last year and thousands gathered in North London to pay their respects.
VICE News Shorts
3:29

How Trump has ramped up the war on terror

In President Trump’s first year as commander-in-chief, U.S. military activity intensified in nearly every theater of war he inherited, a VICE News review of publicly available information on military operations shows.
VICE Reports
5:42

Fighting for Syria's Disappeared

Over 200,000 Syrian's remain in the Assad government's notorious prison system where inmates face a regime of torture and secret executions. Families for Freedom is a campaign by Syrian women fighting to raise awareness for those still detained.
VICE News Tonight on HBO
4:48

Will Syria’s war criminals ever face trial?

VICE News talks to current member of the Syrian War Crime Commission Karen Koning AbuZayd and Carla del Ponte, who just quit the commission in protest.
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