The Syrian Presidency, for those interested in the banality of evil .

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Asma Al Assad, the First Lady of Syria and the face of the regime, whose Instagram is devoted to "normalizing" the Syrian First Family. 

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'Peshmerganor,' a Norwegian veteran of the Afghanistan War turned Pashmega volunteer in the fight against ISIS.

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Israfil Yilmaz, a Dutch-born young man of Turkish descent, traveled to Syria to become a Jihadist and joined ISIS. Although his Instagram account has been - unsurprisingly- taken down, the following archived images give a sense of its brutal content and how ISIS uses Instagram as a platform to recruit other young men to its cause. 

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A snapshot of Instagram images from early in the Syrian Civil War (2012), before the sectarian-Jihadist phase of the conflict had fully materialized. 

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Ed Kashi, photo-journalist whose images chronicle the plight of Syrian war refugees. 

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Yaman Sadiq, a painter based in Damascus who  documents his work and the face of the city; interestingly, in many of his posts, you'd be hard pressed to find any evidence of war or conflict. 

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Yehia Alrejjo, whose harrowing images depict the results of the fighting at Aleppo and Idlib.

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Yesmen Alsham, whose images frequently include the #IAm_Against_Assad_Regime hashtag and graphically document the suffering of children in the war - many of these images are justifiably troubling. 

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In contrast, the Damascus portrayed by Ghassan Zar evokes Paris on a warm, sunny day more so than a fractured war-zone. 

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