Alex Thomson
Your guide to what the hell is going on in Syria
The police state is alive and well. Most people appear either to support the regime still or they are hedging their bets and don’t want to confront men with AK47s as yet.
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Calls for action on gun controls after Aurora massacre
President Obama has called for more gun controls after the Colorado cinema massacre left twelve people dead -but activists say they want concrete action to prevent more violence.
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UN: do not allow Syria to turn into Srebrenica
With Syrian forces pounding rebel-held areas of Aleppo with helicopter gunships on Friday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he fears another massacre on the scale of Srebrenica.
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Police witnesses in firearms trial get anonymity
Seven officers have been granted anonymity as witnesses in the trial of a man accused of passing an illegal firearm to Mark Duggan before he was shot dead by police in Tottenham almost a year ago.
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Fighting raging in Syrian second city Aleppo
As the regime seeks to regain control of Aleppo, Syria’s commercial hub, fighting also flares again in the capital Damascus where another massacre is alleged to have taken place.
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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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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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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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A day for politics?
Did your heart sink a little to hear Barack Obama say “There will be other days for politics” as he and Mitt Romney suspended their election campaigns after the Batman movie massacre?
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James Holmes: from neuroscience grad to mass murder Joker?
Colorado police are still grappling with possible motives as to why James Eagan Holmes, a middle-class 24-year-old neuroscience student, may have killed 12 cinema-goers watching a Batman film.
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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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UN heads to scene of Syria ‘massacre’
UN officials head for the Syrian town of Tremseh to investigate reports of a massacre of civilians by Syrian troops and pro-government militia.
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Government criticised over Saudi arms exports
Questions are raised over the government’s ties to Saudi Arabia as the extent of UK arms exports to repressive regimes is laid bare.
