First to Fall
Conflict
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52m
Two students in Canada, Tarek & Hamid, return to Libya to fight Gaddafi in 2011. Neither is a soldier. The war changes them differently: Hamid thrives in the battle for Misrata; Tarek struggles with the danger. Their parallel journeys tell two of the conflict's millions of stories.
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