Syria: catching the bus to Islamic State’s capital
“If you have a young man of army age in your bus or someone they think is a spy, there’s nothing you can do. They take them off the bus, beat them and send them back to Raqqa.”
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With millions of desperate people across Syria now facing their seventh winter of war, the United Nations has warned that intensified military operations are forcing families to flee again, in the cold, to areas without enough resources to support them. In Damascus, the regime continues its bombardment of the besieged area of East Ghouta. A warning: some…
At least two dozen people have been killed after airstrikes hit the rebel-held suburb of East Gouta, just outside the Syrian capital Damascus. Witnesses say Russian jets bombed the area, causing several buildings to collapse. The strikes come as the war in Syria is soon to enter its seventh year.
In Syria, critically ill patients have been allowed to leave the rebel held area of eastern Ghouta to get medical care. Four hundred thousand people have been under siege for months and many are in desperate need of treatment available just minutes away in the capital Damascus. The deal to get a limited number out…
They are under siege. They are under constant bombardment. Now shocking new pictures reveal the agony of life in the Damascus suburb of east Ghouta, under government blockade, where activists say 19 civilians died in a wave of attacks by Syrian forces yesterday. Rebels fired several mortars into a Damascus neighbourhood in response.
The Syrian war has taken a dramatic new turn, and it could signal the end of the Islamic State’s grip on much of the country. Their capital of Raqqa has been under attack from both pro-democracy rebels, backed by America, and the Syrian Government, backed mainly by Russia and Iran. But if there was a…
Kassem Eid, the survivor of a Syrian Government sarin gas attack in Damascus in 2013.
Six children have been reported killed in a mortar attack on a kindergarten in the opposition-controlled Damascus suburb of Harasta. Krishnan is in the Syrian capital this evening.
A medical team is on its way to the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, where 32 people are reported to have died of starvation in the last month and children are suffering from severe malnutrition.
Britain bombs IS but considers Saudi Arabia a close ally, despite widespread criticism of the Gulf kingdom’s human rights record. Is it fair to compare the two?
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flies to Moscow to thank Russian Vladimir Putin in person for his military support.
Russia says the shelling of its embassy in the Syrian capital was an “act of terrorism” designed to intimidate “supporters of the fight against terrorism”.
“If you have a young man of army age in your bus or someone they think is a spy, there’s nothing you can do. They take them off the bus, beat them and send them back to Raqqa.”
As the number of countries embroiled in the Syria conflict rises, it is easy to think the situation could well spiral out of control.
The pitiless Syrian engine of war grinds on. The waves of the displaced seek refuge. The only realistic escape route is Lebanon and Turkey.
What Europe has seen so far is nothing as to what is to come. That means asking some hard questions, including whether the war against Assad should be put on hold?