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We spoke to Bissan al-Hallak, who lives in Damascus, and started by asking whether she was optimistic about the future of Syria.
The capture of the Syrian capital Damascus was unprecedented – with rebel forces apparently meeting little or no resistance.
Syrian state media has reported that President Bashar al-Assad has not fled the country.
“It was hell”… “We were the living dead” – the words of Syrians emerging from the years of Militant Islamist rebel control and bombardment by Syrian, Russian and Iranian forces. This week for the first time in seven years the Syrian government fully controls its own capital.
British-Syrian journalist Danny Makki, in Damascus speaks about what it was like in the city last night.
I spent some of today at one of the finest government hospitals in Syria, the Al-Mouwasat University Hospital, seeing how they’re able to cope with injuries from rebel attacks. We’ve also once again been able to film Syrian forces attacking Eastern Ghouta from the Harasta suburb of Damascus. A warning: there are distressing images in my…
Footage from Damascus shows the impact of rebel shelling in sites I visited within an hour of them being hit. The rebels – who include extremists linked to Al Qaeda – have been firing on a much smaller scale but it is bringing fear and shoring up support for President Assad.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports on the ground from the Syrian capital Damascus.
Jonathan Miller
Mirvat and her family fled Syria, eventually arriving in the UK via Lebanon, Egypt, Libya and Calais. She has begun a new life – but cannot forget what she went through to get here.
Islamic State fighters take control of large parts of the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus – a sign that the brutal jihadi group’s is trying to open a new front in the Syrian capital.
The world is watching Islamic State group: but the war in Syria between rebels and President Assad is as being waged as fiercely as ever, as Lindsey Hilsum reports from the shattered city of Aleppo.
Amateur video purports to show heavy fighting between rebels and Syrian government forces in Deraa, on the outskirts of Damascus.
The Syrian opposition says the government has failed to address President Bashar al-Assad’s political future at peace talks in Geneva.
Syrian artist Hasan Abdalla taught English literature at Damascus University. But he never imagined he would one day be fleeing his country to seek sanctuary in the land of William Wordsworth.
A series of photos by Channel 4 News Producer Thom Walker from Tadamon and Sbeneh, two areas of Damascus retaken from rebel groups by regime forces.