Looking for answers in the random nature of war
“If a mortar falls, it only affects us for an hour or so. After that, things go back to normal. The next day it’s as if nothing happened.”
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The family of a British surgeon who died after more than a year in detention in Syria have accused the Foreign Office of not doing enough to secure his release.
A British surgeon who was imprisoned for a year by Syrian security forces while helping casualties of war is found dead in a prison cell.
At least 36 people, including children, have died after Syrian army helicopters dropped improvised “barrel bombs” on the northern city of Aleppo, opposition activists say.
UN chemical weapons experts confirm that the nerve gas sarin was “definitely” used in Damascus, in up to five places. Soldiers and civilians died but the report stops short of blaming any side.
After Islamist fighters seize Western-backed rebel weapons warehouses, the United States and Britain suspend non-lethal aid to northern Syria.
“If a mortar falls, it only affects us for an hour or so. After that, things go back to normal. The next day it’s as if nothing happened.”
Eight million Syrians have been forced from their homes, says the UN, but the regime is refusing aid access to rebel-held suburbs surrounding the capital.
As they drove off, down another street littered with rubble and glass, I wondered how any Syrians, whatever their religion or political allegiance, would ever be able to live a normal life again.
The nuclear deal is just a start of what could become a major shift in alliances in the Middle East. What happened in Geneva may have huge ramifications in Damascus and beyond.
Six of Syria’s largest Islamist rebel factions form a new alliance in the fight against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, as bombardment continues in Damascus.
Every time I visit, Lebanon seems more fragile. In August, Beirut was recovering from a car bomb that killed 27. Today, a suicide bomber followed by a car bomb exploded outside the Iranian embassy, killing 23.
You prove yourself by getting great stories not by taking insane risks and talking about it in the bar afterwards – a consideration of the dangerous business of reporting from war zones.
Before Prince Charles and David Cameron attend Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka, both should be shackled to their sofas on Sunday night to watch some distressing TV about their sun-drenched destination.
All production and mixing equipment for chemical weapons in Syria has been destroyed, inspectors report. It means the deal forged to disarm Syria of chemical weapons is still on track.
We know about risks posed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But new information reveals the US dropped bombs on its own soil. And author Eric Schlosser says Trident also has “safety issues”.