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Syria’s civilian casualties – does either side care?
I am staring at it right now – the impact zone. Somebody decided this was a target, and whoever it was, they had to have known that it was an area full of civilians.
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A British mother is trapped alongside her children in Syria as her estranged husband won’t give his permission for her to leave the country.
Missile and mortar attacks in Aleppo and Syria, fierce clashes and claims of chemical weapon use – a typical week in Syria paints a grim picture of a country at war.
Jihadists are increasingly prominent in the fight against the Syrian government, which has so far claimed over 70,000 lives. Channel 4 News maps the gains made by the most powerful groups.
Syrian rebels have amassed large arsenals of weapons – through smuggling and raids on government facilities. Channel 4 News reveals some of the weapons being used against Bashar al-Assad’s government.
I am staring at it right now – the impact zone. Somebody decided this was a target, and whoever it was, they had to have known that it was an area full of civilians.
The UN has a vital job in Syria, but with violence increasing, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the organisation to operate there and staff are being pulled out.
Alex Thomson reports on a bloody day in Damascus as the UN withdraws staff in the latest in our Syria’s Descent series.
Damascus probably sees more sectarian kidnaps now than anywhere else on earth. Hell – why qualify? More kidnaps full stop.
The leader of the opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib resigns, in a blow to a diminishing moderate wing of the two-year uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
All sides tell lies in war, but this latest claim by the Syrian government, of a chemical attack near Aleppo, is one that the UN is taking seriously.
Rebels seize a strategically significant Syrian air defence base, activists say, as fighting rages near Syria’s border with Israel.
Supporters of Syria’s President Bashar Assad gather in Damascus for the funeral of one of the country’s best-known clerics – Sheik Mohammad al-Buti – who was killed in bomb attack earlier this week.
With the bombing of the Iman mosque in Syria, “a new day has dawned and in the cynicism of this war a new level of descent has been reached”.
In the thick of a violent civil war any attempt to point out the strange normality of life in much of central Damascus will be met as blatant pro-Assad war propaganda.
As President Barack Obama warns Syria against using chemical weapons, it may be too late, according to Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.