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Iraq fears Syria overthrow more than Iran war
Funny how different things can look when you change your perspective. Just back from some intriguing conversations with the Shia-led Iraqi government for my Unreported World documentary in April.
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The Syrian government says it won’t end the violence, unless the rebels give written guarantees to stop fighting, as the UN calls on Damascus to keep its promise to end the bloodshed.
Amid signs that Syrian attacks on the opposition have intensified in the last 24 hours, the United Nations struggles to implement a peace plan calling for an end to the violence.
Syrian opposition groups say the army has been shelling the Damascus suburbs of Irbin and Harasta amid reports of several military offensives.
Bashar al-Assad’s London-based father-in-law has been advising him on how to deal with the country’s uprising, according to emails reportedly exchanged between the two.
Militant factions in the Gaza strip agree to an Egyptian-brokered truce with Israel after four days of clashes in which 25 Palestinians were killed.
Around 50 people, including children, are killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs amid a peace mission by the UN, according to activists.
As deputy oil minister Abdo Hussameldin defects from President Assad’s government, Britain’s ambassador to Syria tells Channel 4 News the minister’s defection won’t be the last.
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is facing mouting pressure over human rights abuses and the refusal of aid convoys as the UN’s humanitarian chief prepares to go to Amman.
Syrian rebel forces “strategically withdraw” from their stronghold of Homs, reportedly leaving the area and its 4,000 civilians in control of government forces.
Funny how different things can look when you change your perspective. Just back from some intriguing conversations with the Shia-led Iraqi government for my Unreported World documentary in April.
Am a few days into my Baghdad trip and it has been riveting, frustrating, confounding of my expectations and alarming in almost equal measures.
Journalists injured in the attack that killed Marie Colvin appeal for a ceasefire to allow them to receive urgent medical help, joining calls from the ICRC for a daily pause in fighting.
Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Rugman travels to rural northern Syria where local villagers have joined the revolt against the Assad regime. His report contains eyewitness accounts of brutality.
Syria is already being talked up as a central topic at the Anglo-French summit between David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday. Can the old duo revive their Libya double-act? To which the answer is: forget it.
Jon Snow blogs on the situation in Syria and why it seems to be putting al-Qaeda and the West on the same side.