Carrie is back, but the west is over
A complex series of unanswered questions – Paul Mason looks at America’s sudden loss of diplomatic coherence and finds an uneasy Homeland.
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The US president will wait for Congress to debate and vote on the issue before launching military action against the Assad regime.
A complex series of unanswered questions – Paul Mason looks at America’s sudden loss of diplomatic coherence and finds an uneasy Homeland.
Among Syrian refugees in Lebanon, there is admiration for the independence of British MPs – but also confusion over the west’s reluctance to act.
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US President Barack Obama says his country is considering “narrow action” in Syria, as Secretary of State John Kerry outlines the case for US military intervention.
With David Cameron suffering a humiliating defeat in the Commons after the vote against military intervention in Syria, Channel 4 News looks back at an extraordinary week in politics.
The government’s motion to support military intervention in Syria is defeated by 285 to 272 votes – a seismic moment for David Cameron’s leadership and Britain’s role in the world.
International politics and diplomacy have masked the reality of torture, sexual violence and death for people living amid the carnage of Syria’s civil war.
With Iraq, we had the “dodgy dossier”. But with Syria, we have something that does exist: chemical weapons. And the UK Foreign Secretary clearly believes we can now go to war without any dossier at all – dodgy or sound.
Military intervention would be legally justified on humanitarian grounds, even if blocked by the UN security council, according to a summary of the UK government’s legal advice.
The prime minister falls in behind Labour’s suggestion that a final vote on military action against Syria should wait until the UN chemical weapons inspectors report is published.
Ed Miliband appears to have hardened up his stance on Syria. Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander told BBC Radio 4’s World at One that Labour wanted the UN to have considered a report from UN weapons inspectors before a vote. So what’s going on?
Ed Miliband’s call late last night for “some kind of UN moment” before any attack on Syria may be pushing at a door the PM has already realised he has to open.
Political cogs are set in motion to prepare governments for possible military action in Syria, ahead of what is set to be a confrontational UN Security Council meeting.
Pro-Assad hackers take the New York Times offline and disrupt Twitter. Experts say they could have carried out one of the biggest cyberattacks ever seen.