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The struggle to bring aid to desperate Syria
Aid workers trying to bring supplies and medicines to Syrians affected by conflict in the country face huge challenges and the issue is political, not humanitarian, hears Lindsey Hilsum.
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Turkey fortifies security and threatens to retaliate forcefully if its border with Syria is violated again.
Aid workers trying to bring supplies and medicines to Syrians affected by conflict in the country face huge challenges and the issue is political, not humanitarian, hears Lindsey Hilsum.
The Syrian transport minister has described the Turkish decision to force a Syrian passenger plane to land as “air piracy”. The plane was travelling from Russia to Damascus.
Turkish fighter planes have forced a Syrian passenger plane to land at Ankara’s airport amid suspicions it was being used to carry munitions, according to reports.
Syria apologises for Wednesday’s mortar attack on Turkey, as the Turkish parliament gives the green light for military action outside the country’s borders if the government deems it necessary.
A Californian filmmaker linked to an anti-Islamic film which sparked a wave of violent protests across the world is taken in for questioning by officers.
Syria walks out of an international summit after Egypt’s president uses his first visit to Iran in 33 years to condemn the Syrian administration as “an oppressive regime that has lost its legitimacy”.
Shell bursts would occur every few minutes, at all parts of the town. They fell from the southern fringes to the northern end of the town with utter unpredictability.
Syrian opposition activists accuse President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of a massacre of scores of people in a town close to the capital that the army has just retaken from rebels.
More than 200,000 Syrians have fled into neighbouring countries during the conflict, already surpassing the UN’s expectation of 185,000 refugees by the end of the year.
Prime Minister David Cameron and US president Barack Obama agree that use of chemical weapons in Syria or even a threat to deploy them is “completely unacceptable”.
President Barack Obama threatens US military action against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, warning any attempt to use chemical or biological weapons would cross a “red line” for the United States.
Footage filmed in Syria’s largest city shows heavy gunfire as rebels and government forces battle for control of the airport, and President Assad appears publicly for the first time in six weeks.
Lakhdar Brahimi tells Channel 4 News he may not succeed where Kofi Annan failed but will “do his best” to halt the 17-month old civil war.
As the UN concludes that the massacre in Houla was a war crime authorised by President Assad, at least 30 people are reported killed in an air strike by Syrian forces on the rebel-held town of Azaz.