Abby Sewell

The fog of war is especially thick in Syria, where access is nearly impossible for foreign journalists and accounts of the war often reach the outside world via social media.…

Six years ago, in the early days of the Syrian uprising, a group of anti-government activists in a Damascus suburb decided to start their own newspaper.[pq]“If I look back to…

“The Uncounted,” Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal’s exhaustively reported investigation into the scale of civilian casualties in the U.S.-led coalition’s fight against ISIS, begins, like many disaster narratives, with a…

In the past, "hakawati" would recount legends or fables; today, Moth-like events often tackle social issues or process trauma from war

A scene from the annual Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism conference.As the Arab Spring began to topple a wave of repressive governments six years ago, many members of the fledgling…

The first line of Rania Abouzeid’s story “The Jihad Next Door” could be the opener of a literary spy novel.“The eight men, beards trimmed, explosive belts fastened, pistols and grenades…