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HAVERFORD, Pa.— A peaceful uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the 2011 Arab Spring has, over the last seven years, exploded into a full-scale civil war that has killed more than 500,000 and driven 12 million from their homes, according to human rights advocacy group the Syria Campaign. The war has devastated cities and decimated civilians, creating a power vacuum that has allowed ISIS to thrive and ballooning into one of the biggest humanitarian crises of this century.

For Syrian journalist Marwan Hisham that has meant the death of close friends, the radicalization and …