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Libya on glide-path into the unknown
Channel 4 News Washington Correspondent Matt Frei reflects on former dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s bloody last hours.
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Channel 4 News Washington Correspondent Matt Frei reflects on former dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s bloody last hours.
Hundreds of Turkish commandos have attacked Kurdish militants in northern Iraq. Officials say they have killed 21 PKK fighters in an offensive to avenge the deaths of 24 Turkish soldiers.
Freed at last: after five years in captivity, the young Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is back on home soil. But was the deal behind his release too high a price for Israel to pay?
As army defectors battle in Jabal al-Zawiya, a rights group tells Channel 4 News of evidence that President Assad’s forces are stepping up a campaign of rape in affluent areas to ‘incite civil war.’
As the Syrian government’s crackdown continues, a report says 88 protesters have died in custody since April. Human rights groups tell Channel 4 News there is evidence of “horrific cases of torture”.
US President Barack Obama, David Cameron and other EU leaders have called on Syrian president Assad to relinquish power.
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad tells the United Nations that military and police operations against protesters have ended.
The United States imposes new financial sanctions on Syria and appears to edge closer to calling directly for President Bashar al-Assad to quit.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad pledges to pursue a relentless battle against “terrorist groups” despite international condemnation of his regime’s crackdown on protesters.
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah demands an end to the bloodshed in Syria and recalls his country’s ambassador from Damascus, in a rare intervention.
Syrian troops have killed 20 people in a tank assault on the eastern city of Deir al-Zor, ignoring direct appeals from the UN to President Bashar al-Assad to end civilian bloodshed.
Protesters take to the streets across Syria in defiance of President Assad’s crackdown as one resident of Hama tells Channel 4 News “There is heavy shelling and bombing in the street”.
As Syrian security forces intensify their crackdown on protesters, one human rights campaigner tells Channel 4 News that Europe must refuse to buy Syrian oil if it is to stop “funding the regime”.
More people are killed in Syria as emergency talks take place at the UN. But Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt tells Channel 4 News military intervention is not on the agenda.
Syrian Special Forces and tanks are battling to wrest back control of Hama, reports defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones.