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Baghdamascus: Iraq’s long shadow
There’s a new town in town. Not on any map, but deep in the public psyche of the UK, US and France. It’s Baghdamascus.
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The Syrian government welcomes the agreement to disarm their chemical weapons but the US warns Syria that it will take action if it fails to live up to its promises.
Monday’s UN inspectors’ report on the alleged chemical weapons attack outside Damascus will confirm that poison gas was used, according to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
There’s a new town in town. Not on any map, but deep in the public psyche of the UK, US and France. It’s Baghdamascus.
Damascus is the chemical weapons capital of Syria, with vast and often secret research, production and storage facilities littered across the city. Click around this interactive guide.
The Syrian Prime Minister, Wael al-Halki, has survived a bomb attack targeting his convoy in central Damascus today, according to local media reports.
At least 100 people are reported dead after a major Syrian army offensive in the suburbs south of Damascus, say opposition groups, who are calling the attack a “massacre”.
Everybody knows the only people out on the streets after dark are rebel fighters or the army taking them on, but for a mother of three boys the daily battle is for rent, gas for heating and cooking and basic foods.
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson reports from Syria to assess the human cost of the conflict that has now been raging for two years.
As part of our special Syria’s Descent series we are hoping to set up a live video chat directly between viewers and Alex Thomson – what would you ask?
A car bomb targeting the headquarters of Syria’s ruling party kills at least 53 people in central Damascus according to state televison.
A bomb in Damascus narrowly misses a primary school, leaving teachers and pupils to cope with the aftermath.
“We were able to film an airport which – contrary to the impression that has gone global – is not just open, but functioning.”
It is that most mundane of journeys, from the capital city to the international airport, which you’ve done so many times, which really brings home how things are changing here in Syria.
Syria’s capital has changed profoundly since Alex Thomson last visited in the summer, with checkpoints now scattered across the city and the rumble of fighter bomber attacks in the distance.
Syrian jets bomb rebel-held areas of Damascus, residents say, as a countrywide internet blackout enters its third day.