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The searing grief of Houla’s survivors
Alex Thomson blogs on the searing grief felt by those left behind after the Houla massacre.
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Gunmen kill journalists and security guards at a pro-government television station near Damascus, after President Bashar al-Assad says the country is in a “state of war”.
United Nations monitors enter the village in Syria where a massacre was reported, hours after the organisation’s chief warns that civil war is an “imminent and real” danger.
Syria blogger Sakhr Al-Makhadhi considers the options as the UN struggles to find a credible plan for ending the violence.
A new plan for addressing violence in Syria is to be considered by the UN on the day its monitors in Syria were shot at while trying to reach the site of the latest “massacre” near Hama.
Amid the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, there are serious questions about the Commonwealth, one of the Queen’s most beloved associations, writes Danny Sriskandarajah of the Royal Commonwealth Society.
At least 80 Syrian soldiers have been killed by rebels over the weekend, according to an activist group. The violence comes as Alex Thomson visits the villages blamed for the Houla massacre.
The EU is expected to put pressure on President Putin over Russia’s stance on Syria during a summit in St Petersburg.
Which world capital is most likely to provide a breakthrough in the global response to the violence in Syria? Some would say Moscow, but I am plumping for Ankara.
Syrian forces who stand accused of committing a massacre in Houla could be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, according to the UN high commissioner for human rights.
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.
Alex Thomson blogs on the searing grief felt by those left behind after the Houla massacre.
Channel 4 News challenges the Syrian ambassador before the UN Human Rights Council’s special session probing the Houla massacre after 13 more bodies are discovered.
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.
The UN Security Council meets to discuss the massacre of more than 100 men, women and children in Houla as international condemnation grows.