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On the trail of the UN monitors…
Alex Thomson, chief correspondent at Channel 4 News, reports from Syria where UN monitors are stationed.
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Alex Thomson, chief correspondent at Channel 4 News, reports from Syria where UN monitors are stationed.
Alex Thomson blogs on the aftermath of the Houla massacre, and why the survivors may never get the answers they deserve.
With the systematic slaughter of dozens of non-combatants, the evidence on the ground in the Syrian town of Houla is of a war crime. But Syria’s government is saying it had no hand in the massacre.
President Obama, pre-occupied with extricating the USA from his predecessor’s wars, has little stomach for military action in Syria.
Alex Thomson blogs on the difficulties facing the UN officers attempting to monitor the Syrian “ceasefire”.
Britain and several other countries are expelling Syrian diplomats following the killing of 108 people, half of them children, in Houla.
Alex Thomson blogs from inside Syria on a regime ruled by a principle of fear, but that is becoming more hollow by the day.
Bashar and Asma al-Assad, Syria’s one-time golden couple, beguiled the West, then betrayed their own people. In the aftermath of the Houla massacre, Channel 4 News’s Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller considers evidence of President Assad’s personal responsibility for crimes against humanity.
We have an infernal combination of danger in which the international community has somehow rendered itself powerless to do more that watch and shout. And how many babies, young children and women, will that save?
Forty people are killed in Syria as international mediator Kofi Annan arrives in Damascus following the deaths of more than 100, many of them children, in Houla.
The UN Security Council meets to discuss the massacre of more than 100 men, women and children in Houla as international condemnation grows.
Up to 70 people are feared to have been killed in a deadly shell attack on houses in the central Syrian city of Hama amid a visit by UN observers.
Syria agrees on the terms of a ceasefire monitoring mission which will see more United Nations observers deployed.
As the UN passes a resolution authorising a team of international monitors to visit Syria, an activist in Homs tells Channel 4 News that despite the ceasefire “nothing has changed on the ground”.
The Kofi Annan-brokered ceasefire in Syria will fail because of irreconcilable ambitions within the country, regionally and internationally, Middle East and security experts tell Channel 4 News.