ARTE Reportage

One year after the fall of Assad, the threat of Islamic State is still present in a divided Syria.

For years, the Assad secret services took away thousands of children from opponents of the regime and made them disappear.

In late April 2025, fighting between militias and government security forces in Druze areas of Damascus has brought violence back to Syria

Women in north-east Syria are fighting for their homeland and for their hard-won equal rights.

In late November 2024, an opposition coalition seized Aleppo and toppled the Assad regime. What is life like in the newly liberated city?

On Sunday 8 December 2024, Syrians woke up to the news that Bashar Al Assad had fled the country.

Hundreds of thousands have fled Lebanon since September as a result of the Israeli bombing raids, including many Syrian war refugees, who have to flee conflict again.

Anlam's answer to the unrelenting violence in Syria is unrelenting kindess

In a Syria ravaged by more than a decade of war, small makeshift refineries employ refugee children in terrible conditions.

Four years ago, the US-led coalition in Syria destroyed Islamic State's last bastion in Raqqa. But there is a lot of work to do to keep the peace and to rebuild.

 One year on, ARTE Reportage goes back to Syria to see how the local population is coping after the earthquake.

In north-west Syria on the border with Turkey lies the Al-Nouri camp, where blind civilians are housed.

Hamoudé is just 12 years old, but with his dad in jail, he's the breadwinner of the family

Since 2018, our reporters have been documenting the daily lives of civilians in the last rebel-held region of Syria.

A unique intergenerational housing project in France mixes elderly residents with toddler visitors for the benefit of all.

This is the story of how a refugee taking a picture with Chancellor Angela Merkell morphed into a court case against Facebook

Welcome to the Hotel Arbez, it’s a lovely place straddling the Franco-Swiss border.

When the fear of illness becomes the illness.

French artist Jaybo Monk lives and works in Berlin, where he dedicates himself to urban art and to supporting a charity for the blind

Did you know that the last war between France and Spain took place in the 1970s?

Since 2004, the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao has been home to a dolphin therapy centre.

 Artists Satch Hoyt and Juan Covelli challenge colonial narratives and spark debate about the restitution of cultural artefacts.

Paris city hall is pursuing a green traffic policy: Less cars, more bicycles. But not everybody is pleased.

How can we have more fulfilling sex? Ronja von Rönne meets couples and singles who have reinvented their sexuality.

They are reclaiming their bodies and freely expressing their sexuality: A focus on sex positive popstars in contemporary culture.

Vanessa Wagner performs Philip Glass’s Piano Etudes with dancers from the Accrorap company.

Paris city hall is pursuing a green traffic policy: Less cars, more bicycles. But not everybody is pleased.

Bach’s St John Passion from Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie with the NDR vocal ensemble and Concerto Köln conducted by Klaas Stok.

How can we age well? Ronja von Rönne trys to find out by talking to chimney sweep Norbert Skrobek, who is close to retirement and Monika Gutte who defies age with a zest for life

White sand, white citrus blossom, white houses – Spain’s Costa Blanca is aptly named.

Using the latest technology, researchers are discovering the bright colours of ancient Greek art and architecture.  

A look back at the Jeffrey Epstein's life and how the Epstein Files are exposing corruption at the highest level.

A complex feeling that is both problematic and useful, the latest research on boredom.