Alex Thomson
Assad’s ‘iron-fist defence’ of Syrian capital
Yesterday it was Midan. Today it was al-Qaboon. In both the picture is pretty clear, that any rebel fighters in these areas have been driven from them, writes Alex Thomson.
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Aleppo sees fierce fighting for fourth day
Aleppo is reportedly bombed by Syrian fighter jets in a blistering attack on the fourth day of clashes between government and rebel forces battling to control the commercial hub.
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Alex Thomson
After the Battle of Midan
The rubble remains. The stain on the nation is there. The rebel fighters’ puny barricades were overrun with ease by Syrian’s military might by land and by air. Yes – the Battle of Midan has been won. The war, is quite another matter, writes Alex Thomson from Syria.
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Syria pledges no chemical weapons against its people
Syria promises not to use chemical weapons against its own citizens, an action UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon says that would be “reprehensible”. Alex Thomson reports live from Damascus.
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Alex Thomson
Under fire in Assad’s military hospital
Bizarrely, the Syrian regime will happily allow you to film its dead soldiers but makes filming living ones all but impossible.
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Fresh clashes in two Syria cities
Syrian rebels battle President Assad’s forces near Aleppo as helicopter gunships bombard several districts of Damascus in an effort to drive out insurgents, witnesses claim.
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Alex Thomson
Damascene Vision
“Traffic cops, immaculate and in designer shades, politely ask to see our Ministry of Information permission. Presently, sensibly in the shade of some trees, a not-so-very-secret mukhabarrat secret policeman will radio our information to his desk from our translator.”
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Bloody clashes in Syria’s ‘second city’ Aleppo
Troops with machine guns opened fire on rebels in Syria’s northwest commercial hub of Aleppo on Saturday amid reports of sniper fire and clashes in Damascus overnight.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Among the Syrians fleeing across the border
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs from the Lebanese/Syrian border, which 30,000 Syrians have crossed in recenty days.
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Up to 30,000 Syrian refugees may be fleeing for Lebanon
The UN says as many as 30,000 Syrian refugees may have crossed into Lebanon in the last 48 hours to escape the bloody uprising, and Syria’s intelligence chief dies of wounds sustained in a bomb blast.
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Rebels seize Syrian border posts as UN flounders
Syrian rebels seize posts on the Iraqi and Turkish borders amid failing diplomacy and fears the government will turn to chemical weapons to stop an uprising that has already killed thousands.
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Russia and China veto sanctions on Syria
Russia and China veto a UN resolution proposing sanctions on Syria as it emerges the UK has frozen £100m of Syrian assets. Are President Assad’s days in charge numbered?
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Violence rages on across Syria as UN votes
Fighting has intensified in Damascus as the UN tries to persuade Russia and China to impose tougher sanctions on Syria.
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Assad’s close advisors killed in bomb blast
Heavy fighting in the streets of Damascus follows a bomb blast which killed Syria’s defence minister, deputy defence minister – President Assad’s brother-in-law – and a senior military official.
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Russia accuses west of ‘blackmail’ over Syria
As fighting intensifies around Damascus, Russia’s foreign minister threatens to block a UN resolution that threatens sanctions against Syria, if western allies do not stop resorting to “blackmail”.
