Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Ukraine: what happens next in a world without framework?
The question is no longer what Tony Blair did, or what President Obama should do, but what are we all going to do?
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Dozens of people are killed, including at least two children, when a car bomb explodes in the Syrian town of Douma just north east of the capital Damascus, according to activists.
The head of the global chemical weapons watchdog tells Channel 4 News it is an “open question” if hidden chemical weapons remain in Syria, two days after the last shipment was supposed to have left.
The question is no longer what Tony Blair did, or what President Obama should do, but what are we all going to do?
On Bloomsday, 16 June, readers celebrate Ulysses, one of the greatest – and most demanding – novels in English. How much more challenging is it to translate James Joyce’s masterpiece into Arabic?
Writing about Syria’s election gives it a legitimacy it does not deserve. But the Syrians who vote are mourning the loss of the regime they once knew.
President Bashar al-Assad is widely expected to win a third seven-year term in office, as Syrians head to the polls in the middle of a civil war that has killed more than 160,000 people.
William Hague says reports that chemical weapons have once again been used against the people of Syria are “utterly sickening”.
Authorities are investigating new claims of attacks using chlorine gas in Syria as many more are also killed in fighting in Homs and Damascus.
Rebel fighters in besieged Douma say they will never surrender. But conditions for civilians are becoming desperate.
Will the US do more to support the rebels in Syria? Its sure to be on the agenda when Obama meets the Saudi king. What will the fall-out be? Lindsey Hilsum is in Damascus.
With the eyes of the world on Ukraine, an escalated campaign of barrel bombings by the regime of Bashar al-Assad has led to the indiscriminate killing of men, women and children in Syria.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, distribute food parcels to 18,000 isolated civilians in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus.
The besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus is awash with suffering. Amid the despair, a group of friends found a piano and have uploaded their songs of resilience to the internet.
Syria’s regime and opposition forces evacuate hundreds of refugees from the Yarmouk camp on the outskirts of Damascus.
Half of people polled in a Channel 4 News survey have said that Britons who travel to Syria to get involved in the country’s civil war should not be allowed to return.