Vice reporters in Syria in 2016 viewing dictator Assad's retaking control of the country with Russian support. 2nd half: the economic stakes in the war of beliefs over climate change and its consequences.

VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi travels to Aceh and across Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country and travels to the remote shores of Hawaii and the coast of the North Sea to see the extent of our plastic addiction.

The health effects of Kuwait's obsession with American fast food; exploring the booming film business in Nigeria.

VICE travels to Tel Aviv to find out how Israel is on its way to becoming the world's top cyber superpower and sends Gianna Toboni to Tokyo to see the consequences Japan's rising nationalism.

VICE travels to the Hermit Kingdom (North Korea) during the annual Day of the Sun celebrations as global tensions reached a fever pitch and correspondent Gianna Toboni heads to Mogadishu to witness the fight to save the country.

VICE heads to the heart of Nigeria's oil production to witness firsthand the fight of the Niger Delta youth and traveled across the world's oceans to see what a few small teams of scientists are doing to keep these vital structures alive.

VICE embeds with the officers trying to shed light on the dark corners of the web and goes to the heart of coal country to see what it will take to save Appalachia.

VICE travels to Moscow to find out why these hackers are so effective and founder Suroosh Alvi went to Uganda to see how vulnerable humans are to a new pandemic and the options there are for staving it off.

What's driving the media's battle over facts and the polarization in the Trump Era, and an exploration of the emerging field of microbiome science.

In the Season 5 finale, VICE heads to the front lines of the fight to retake Mosul from ISIS, and meets the Iraqi youth who lived and trained under ISIS as they try to rebuild their lives.