How can we find the truth about ‘chemical weapons’ in Syria?
The first, and second, and third response to today’s news from Syria should be to bring out the heavy-duty inverted commas.
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Syria asks the UN to independently investigate what it claims is the use of chemical weapons by “terrorist groups” – Syria’s name for rebels currently fighting government troops.
The first, and second, and third response to today’s news from Syria should be to bring out the heavy-duty inverted commas.
New footage, said to be from a Syrian government tank, shows the desolation in Damascus, as the country’s refugee crisis worsens and the government targets rebel-held Raqqa.
You see him here, you see him there – the Syrian man with an uncanny knack of turning up whenever the cameras roll has become a figure of fun for Syrian exiles. And he’s not alone.
Syria’s foreign minister says the government is ready to hold talks with the opposition, but a rebel leader says there can be no dialogue while President Bashar al-Assad remains in power.
After yesterday’s bloodshed in Syria – one of the deadliest days in the conflict – there was further violence today, with at least 29 people killed in rocket attacks in Aleppo.
Russia is raising concerns over reports of an Israeli air attack on Syria near Damascus, claiming that any such action would amount to unacceptable military interference in the country.
Syrian state TV reports that Israeli warplanes bombed a military research site near Damascus in the early hours of Wednesday.
Healthcare professionals in Syria caring for the war-wounded are being deliberately targeted by Bashir al-Assad’s regime, says the International Rescue Committee.
Rebels control large parts of his country: but as President Assad gave a defiant speech to Syrians last night, he played on real fears about its future – and the spectre of a Somali style collapse.
The US government dismisses a proposed peace deal from Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as “detached from reality”, and urges the Middle East leader to step down.
The United Nations has dramatically raised the number of people killed in the Syrian uprising and civil war – calling the death toll “truly shocking”. Dozens more people died in attacks today.
Syria starts 2013 with aerial strikes and clashes as forces loyal to Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad battle with rebel fighters for the control of key cities.
An exclusive insight into life on the frontline in the Syrian army, as young soldiers talk of their motivation for fighting an increasingly bitter civil war.
“At the risk of repeating myself, there’s some nonsense being pedalled on social media about the story we broke recently in Aqrab.”