Syria: Weathering the storm
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson chances upon a factory manager battling to keep a sense of normality in war torn Syria.
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Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson chances upon a factory manager battling to keep a sense of normality in war torn Syria.
Three women travelling with an international aid convoy in Libya have been raped by pro-government forces, according to the country’s deputy prime minister.
The UN envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, tells Channel 4 News it is “desperately urgent” parties work together to end the war but admits he has not spoken directly to President Assad in three months.
Thousands of Syrians fled to Jordan’s Zataari refugee camp to escape violence at home. But now women and children live in fear of kidnap, rape and sham marriages in the camp meant to keep them safe.
A new report warns of the increasing tactic of kidnaps and estimates that at least $60m has gone to financing terrorist groups in ransom payments since 2008.
France confirms “with certainty” that the al-Qaeda-linked North African warlord Abou Zeid was killed in combat with French troops in Mali in February.
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.
Jack Straw clearly cannot stand by the statement that the British are not kidnapping and torturing people using third-party countries, merely that he insists he was not involved himself.
William Hague names a British construction worker, “likely to have been killed” at the hands of his Nigerian extremist captors, as Brendan Vaughan.
An extremist Islamic group says it has executed seven foreign hostages, including one Briton, after kidnapping them from a construction company last month.
Police say they are “very concerned” for 18-year-old Zoya Anwar, from Walsall, who has been missing for more than a week.
Libyan politican Abdel Hakim Belhaj, who is suing the British government over its alleged role in his kidnap and torture, says he will drop the case for £3, an apology and an admission of liability.
The al-Qaeda commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who shot to prominence after the bloody Algerian gas plant hostage crisis, has reportedly been killed by Chadian soldiers in Mali.