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Live Chat Wed. 12:30 ET: Life and Death Behind Syria's Front Lines
Join a live chat about “Syria Behind the Lines” on 4/10 at 12:30 p.m. ET with Olly Lambert, Syria Deeply's Lara Setrakian and TIME's Rania Abouzeid.
April 9, 2013
Interactive Map: A Valley At War
The Orontes river valley tells the story of Syria.  Here, neighbor is fighting neighbor.
April 9, 2013
Where Are Syria's Weapons Coming From?
How much do they cost? And how does the politics of their distribution impact the conflict on the ground? TIME's Rania Abouzeid explains.
April 9, 2013
On Syria, World Powers Hedge Their Bets
Two years into Syria's civil war, no nation wants to end up on the losing side. Here's how the world powers stack up.
April 9, 2013
Reporter's Reflections: "I Almost Died in Syria"
Before FRONTLINE filmmaker Olly Lambert crossed into Syria, he had no idea how close he would come to dying.
April 9, 2013
Does Syria Face a Genocidal Future?
A new report suggests those at risk of ethnic cleansing are not just the Sunni civilians currently being tortured, assassinated and bombed, but members of Syria’s Alawite elite.
April 9, 2013
Slideshow: Syria on Both Sides of the Line
FRONTLINE filmmaker Olly Lambert's behind the scenes photos shed light on Syria's civil war from both sides of the line.
April 9, 2013
FRONTLINE Honored By Webby Awards
Our website and an interactive have been singled out for one of the biggest honors on the web.
April 9, 2013
A Rare Glimpse Inside A Syrian Loyalist Stronghold
Everyone at the public high school in Aziziya knows that the senior boys may soon be drafted in President Bashar al-Assad's army to take up the fight in the country's escalating civil war.
April 9, 2013
NFL Concussion Litigation Faces An Early Courtroom Test
A preliminary hearing this week will determine whether more than 4,000 former players can sue the NFL in court for allegedly concealing the link between football and brain damage.
April 8, 2013
The Bombing of al-Bara
When FRONTLINE filmmaker Olly Lambert sat to interview Jamal Maarouf, a Syrian rebel commander, he did not anticipate that bombs from government jets would begin to fall just 300 meters away.
April 7, 2013
Shtetl: A FRONTLINE Digital Premiere
Before the Holocaust engulfed Europe, Bransk was a quiet little town in Poland. By the end of the war, every Jewish person in Bransk was gone, most of them killed in gas chambers at Treblinka. In Shtetl, director Marian Marzynski goes back to tell their story.
April 5, 2013