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The Syrian War Keeps Getting Worse for the People of Aleppo
The rebels and the regime have spent 18 months fighting over this city, but soon there may be nothing of it left to fight for.
Syria Is Using DIY Barrel Bombs Against Its Citizens
These bombs aren't exactly accurate, and the blasts have killed countless civilians.
The Syrian Regime Is Using DIY Barrel Bombs Against Its Citizens
With dozens of fatalities attributed to these bombs on a daily basis, the Syrian Air Force seems to have found itself a successful and low-cost tool for causing widespread destruction in opposition-controlled areas. I caught up with munitions expert...
How Jihadists Are Blackmailing, Torturing, and Killing Gay Syrians
There have been numerous eyewitness reports and video evidence of medieval-style punishments and brutal executions being meted out by the Islamists on members of minority religious groups, secularists, and people accused of blasphemy.
A Munitions Expert Weighs in on Last Month's Chemical Attacks in Damascus
Independent munitions expert Eliot Higgins, a.k.a. "Brown Moses," has put forward a particularly convincing case linking the regime to the sarin gas attacks, which corroborates firmly with the information gathered by NGOs and the intelligence agencies...
More and More Journalists Are Being Kidnapped in Syria
Journalists who are justifiably worried about being kidnapped by the rebels or the regime are being forced to reconsider the way they cover the ongoing civil war, even as they feel a duty to continue reporting on it.
The Hangover News
Protests in Egypt descended into carnage this weekend, but you were probably too drunk to notice.
Scud Missiles Really Suck
To rout the forces that are striving to close his chapter of Syrian history, Assad is now digging into his pile of scud misssiles and firing a few of them at rebels.
Interviews with Syrian Army Defectors
Today, we're serving up two interviews Robert King conducted in the field with Abu Ahmad, a civil engineer and defector from the Syrian Army, and Akhi Muhammad, a defected Free Syrian Army officer from Damascus.
Fat Camp Mem'ries
When I was 14 I went to fat camp. It was completely voluntary. The only problem was that I wanted to go to Camp Shane, a famous fat camp in the Catskills that has a great reputation.