Full Coverage: Inside Syria: Dispatches from the Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times’ Beirut bureau chief, Patrick J. McDonnell, was granted a rare visa to report from Syria in September 2013, his third trip this year. These are official visits, so he is spending his time in government-held areas.
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Most Syrians face monumental challenges in living amid the war. Even running a simple errand takes all day.
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The numerous militias in Syria have gone from ill-organized neighborhood watch groups to a coherent paramilitary organization.
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DAMASCUS, Syria — State-run Syrian media on Saturday accused antigovernment rebels of massacring more than 100 people during an assault last week on a town outside the northern city of Aleppo, the latest alleged mass killing during the Syrian conflict.
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The Times’ Beirut bureau chief, Patrick J. McDonnell, has just returned from seven days in Syria.
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QUSAIR, Syria — Ecstatic Syrian authorities staged a victory rally Sunday in the center of this battered but strategic town, where rebels were routed last week after having held control for more than a year, using it as a major logistics hub.
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In 2011, the commercial hub of Homs gained notoriety as the cradle of the uprising. Two years later, the war grinds on in the Old City.
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Supporters of Syria’s Bashar Assad in a Damascus neighborhood believe the long war is at a turning point after successes in Qusair and elsewhere.
