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Lindsey Hilsum’s international eye on the year ahead
Journalists make poor prophets, but January is the month when we all think about the year ahead, and the big picture.
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UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi says the first two rounds of talks have made little headway but the two sides have agreed to meet again.
Syria will complete the removal of chemical weapons from the country by the end of the month, and will attend the next round of Geneva peace talks, senior Russian ministers say.
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.
Journalists make poor prophets, but January is the month when we all think about the year ahead, and the big picture.
Syria begins moving chemical weapons materials out of the country in a crucial phase of an internationally backed disarmament programme.
She enlisted William Hague in the global campaign against warzone rape, and empowered women facing breast cancer. Cathy Newman explains why she chose Angelina Jolie as her person of the year.
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.
France steps in as violence in the troubled former colony claims more than 100 lives. Britain pledges to support the operation with a military transport plane.
Rebel groups in Syria are accused of killing as many as 190 civilians and taking 200 hostages during an offensive in August, Human Rights Watch claims.
Chemical weapons inspectors make their first journey into Syria, under the terms agreed by President Assad and the west. But this is dangerous work, in the midst of a raging and complex civil war.
Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s new president, could meet Barack Obama for the first time this week – however, some fear the United States could demand too much from Iran.
A complex series of unanswered questions – Paul Mason looks at America’s sudden loss of diplomatic coherence and finds an uneasy Homeland.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he is committed to destroying his country’s chemical weapons but it will take about a year to do so.
Syria insists Bashar al-Assad is a “legitimate” president, as Russia says it opposes any “use of force” clause in a UN resolution to put his chemical weapons under international control.
US Secretary of State John Kerry says any deal over Syria’s chemical weapons is not a “lifeline” to President Bashar al-Assad, whose regime has “lost all legitimacy”.