 War is Boring quickly used the new resources and platform to turn its attention to more frontline reporting.In the summer of 2013 Axe travelled to Syria to report on the civil war, where he traveled with Syrian rebels to the front lines.It was also among the first new media publications to start publishing frontline coverage of the war against ISIS in Iraq after the sudden fall of Mosul in 2014, quickly publishing photos of Peshmerga troops in Combat and the Yazidi refugee crisis.