It’s complicated: who’s on whose side in Syria and Iraq
There are so many different power blocs and interest groups in Iraq and Syria that it is almost impossible to predict where events might lead.
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There are so many different power blocs and interest groups in Iraq and Syria that it is almost impossible to predict where events might lead.
With the eyes of the world on Ukraine, an escalated campaign of barrel bombings by the regime of Bashar al-Assad has led to the indiscriminate killing of men, women and children in Syria.
Britain will donate another £100m in humanitarian aid to Syria, Justine Greening says, but on the ground intense fighting is preventing aid from reaching the sick and starving.
Foreign Secretary William Hague says a deal struck with Iran over its nuclear programme has made the world a safer place, and it is now time to test Tehran’s “readiness to act in good faith”.
Paul Mason watches Royal Mail shares hit the market – and asks why, in an era of food banks and falling wages, the government is allowing the “better off” to cash in through privatisation.
Barack Obama’s struggles to get support for military intervention in Syria have not gone unnoticed by Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers – who have been circulating cartoons mocking the US president.
There seems to be a bit of buyer’s remorse in the air over Syria in some quarters but it won’t be enough to change the government’s position.
US soldier Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in prison by a military judge after being convicted of the country’s biggest breach of classified data.
Eighteen of the 19 United States embassies closed across the Middle East due to fears of a potential terrorist attack will reopen on Sunday, the US State Department said on Friday.
The US says it will keep 19 embassies in north Africa and the Middle East closed for up to a week, due to a possible militant threat against western targets in the region.
The British embassy in Yemen is to close and several other embassies have been told to be vigilant as the US issues a global travel alert.
Meteorologists have predicted that the hot weather the UK is currently basking in will continue until the school holidays – but how does the UK heat wave compare with the rest of the world?
Gardening competitions and cowboy hats – a leaked report into the killing of Osama bin Laden gives an unusual glimpse into the family life of the terrorist leader on the run.
An Islamist coalition, led by the Muslim Brotherhood, urges its supporters to take to the streets and protest against a military coup that ousted Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi.
Six years on from Israel’s imposed blockade of Gaza, Channel 4 News speaks to the tech entrepreneurs bypassing the blockade and developing software for the global online market.