The men in these photographs were not professional soldiers. They were everyday people—farmers, workers, drivers—who decided to take up arms against an oppressive and unjust regime. They formed a brigade, naming it the Brigade of National Unity, to send a clear message that their struggle was not based on

The refugee camps along the Turkish-Syrian border in 2012 were meant to be a refuge, but they were little more than rows of makeshift tents on barren land. Thousands of families

During the Syrian Civil War, in a calculated effort to suppress regions of rebellion, the regime blocked the flow of water from the Queiq River, flooding areas in the province of Idlib, including the village of Abu Al-Duhur. This man-made disaster was intended to flood the region and disrupt the growing resistance in the area, submerging homes and farmlands under polluted water that came from the industrial zone of Aleppo.