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Cities at war

In 2018, Guardian Cities will explore the reality of war in cities today – not merely how it is fought, but how citizens struggle to adapt, and to rebuild stronger than ever

5 April 2023

  • Born in Damascus documentary, by Scottish-Syrian film-maker, Laura Wadha

    Born in Damascus: the legacy of Syria’s war for two separated cousins

    Laura, a Scottish-Syrian film-maker, reconnects online with her cousin Lujain after 10 years apart. Their paths were separated by war, and now Laura hopes to reconstruct the past by sharing memories and family videos

5 April 2018

  • Even the firehoses leak: how Gaza deals with urban destruction – video

    How can a city living under blockade and perpetual threat of conflict prepare itself for war?

26 March 2018

  • Iraqis walk along a destroyed street in the old city of Mosul eight months after the Iraqi government forces regained control from Isis.

    Rising from the rubble: 'If we don't rebuild Mosul, maybe Isis will come back’

    Months after Isis was forced out and tired of waiting for government action, volunteers have begun the urgent job of rebuilding Iraq’s cities

31 January 2018

  • Mosul victims

    'His death kills me each day': Mosul residents return home – to what?

    After Isis were driven out of Mosul, traumatised families slowly returned to their devastated neighbourhoods. Over more than two months, they told Mona Mahmood their harrowing stories

30 January 2018

  • A rebel fighter in the Syrian city of Aleppo after heavy fighting.

    Welcome to a new kind of war: the rise of endless urban conflict

    Saskia Sassen
  • A young boy wounded by Isis militants is transferred to a hospital in Mosul, December 2016.

    How the people of Mosul subverted Isis 'apartheid'

29 January 2018

  • Mosul residents queue to receive authorised CDs from Islamic State members in a photograph from a militant website.

    The bureaucracy of evil: how Islamic State ran a city

  • A picnic among the rubble of Chelsea after an air raid on London in 1942.

    Tell us your experiences of cities at war

  • Massacres in Paris, which lasted six days and resulted in over 1,368 deaths Date: 26th September 1792<br>G3B2PJ Massacres in Paris, which lasted six days and resulted in over 1,368 deaths Date: 26th September 1792

    Cities and terror: an indivisible and brutal relationship

  • IAn Iraqi man walks by the scene of an attack on US Army Humvees that caused several American casualties in the Al-Waziriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, 2004

    A century of cities at war – in pictures

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