This Ph.D. dissertation explores the role of emotions in informing the generative power of war and asks the question: How does wartime violence intensify/materialize bodies and political communities? In answering this question, it focuses on the practices of violence in the Syrian War and utilizes a pluralist methodology that encompasses interviews and visual methods. Building primarily on feminist and Deleuzian theories around bodies and feminist and critical IR scholarship on the theorizations of (wartime) violence, this dissertation studies the cases of ISIS's executions of queer men, the violence of checkpoint assemblages, and sexual violence against women in Syrian detention centers. This dissertation shows that emotions provide an excellent framework for our analyses of war, bodies, and political communities and open up new ways of understanding the political subject and the political community, as well as the intermingled relations between the two. The dissertation further provides potential insights for those who are interested in studying violence on how to integrate emotions in research design.