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Not the best start to Syria’s Humpty Dumpty talks
With Iran out of this week’s Geneva II conference, prepare for talks where words mean different things to different people – and which could end with a great fall.
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Bashar al-Assad’s government has demolished thousands of homes in an attack on Syria’s civilian population, says a report from Human Rights Watch.
Thousands dead, millions displaced, and daily atrocities – the Geneva II talks to find peace in Syria are aimed at finding a crucial solution, but the challenges seem insurmountable.
Representatives of the Syrian regime and opposition have agreed to hold direct talks following discussions at an international summit in Switzerland, according to Russia’s foreign minister.
With Iran out of this week’s Geneva II conference, prepare for talks where words mean different things to different people – and which could end with a great fall.
As a team of international war crimes prosecutors releases images appearing to show evidence of systematic killing in Syria, Channel 4 News asks if this week’s peace talks in Geneva are at risk.
Thousands of Palestinians at a refugee camp in Damascus are starving to death after six months under Syrian siege. Warning: this report contains some highly distressing images.
Britain will donate another £100m in humanitarian aid to Syria, Justine Greening says, but on the ground intense fighting is preventing aid from reaching the sick and starving.
Syria’s government and some rebels could let humanitarian aid flow and enforce local ceasefires in the country’s civil war, US Secretary of State John Kerry announces.
Syria begins moving chemical weapons materials out of the country in a crucial phase of an internationally backed disarmament programme.
US artist Molly Crabapple does something rare in journalism – she sees and tells a story in a new way, which is why Paul Mason has nominated her as his person of the year for 2013.
After August’s chemical attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, prospects for peace in Syria looked remote. But then Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his US counterpart, John Kerry, managed to pull the world back from the brink.
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A Syrian army air strike hits a vegetable market in the northern city of Aleppo and kills at least 25 people, activists say.
From Father Christmas in Madagascar to lighting candles in India, Channel 4 News looks at how Christmas is being marked around the world.
From Burma to Bulgaria; from South Africa to Syria – Channel 4 News brings you the top 12 foreign films broadcast in 2013, as curated by Foreign Editor Nevine Mabro.