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VICE News Shorts
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Trump’s Chaotic Syria Plan Doesn’t Just Screw the Kurds, It Could help ISIS

It could also really hurt the American position with its allies in the region.
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
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 Specials
8:10

Kurds Assert Control of Hasakah: The Battle for Rojava (Dispatch 3)

VICE News follows the YPG as they become masters of areas of the city that until a few weeks ago had always been held by the Syrian regime.
VICE News Specials
10:20

Night Operation Against the Islamic State: The Battle for Rojava (Dispatch 2)

VICE News followed a YPG detachment on a night operation, providing support from Hasakah's Red Villas district to advancing Kurdish forces against IS fighters trying to defend the strategic al-Zuhor neighborhood, under waves of constant airstrikes from bo
VICE News Specials
7:07

Pushing Back the Islamic State: The Battle for Rojava (Dispatch 1)

VICE News secured exclusive access to YPG fighters as they cleared the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah of Islamic State militants.