Alex Thomson
In search of Houla’s killers
Alex Thomson blogs on the search for Houla’s killers – and finds something which questions the government’s version of events.
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Alex Thomson
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Assad condemns Houla massacre
Syria’s President Assad condemns last Sunday’s massacre in Houla, describing it as an ‘abominable act, but offers no specific response to international envoy Kofi Annan’s call to end the conflict.
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Alex Thomson
Answers in Houla are hard to come by
Alex Thomson blogs on the aftermath of the Houla massacre, and why the survivors may never get the answers they deserve.
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Syria denies role in Houla massacre
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.
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Alex Thomson
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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Syrian diplomats expelled after Houla massacre
Britain and several other countries are expelling Syrian diplomats following the killing of 108 people, half of them children, in Houla.
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After condemnation of the horror in Houla, Assad has reason to be worried
Bashar and Asma al-Assad, Syria’s one-time golden couple, beguiled the West, then betrayed their own people. In the aftermath of the Houla massacre, Channel 4 News’s Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller considers evidence of President Assad’s personal responsibility for crimes against humanity.
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More deaths in Syria after Houla massacre
Forty people are killed in Syria as international mediator Kofi Annan arrives in Damascus following the deaths of more than 100, many of them children, in Houla.
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Alex Thomson
Piecing together the bloody truth in Houla
All around us the soldiers of course said that the massacre that happened here on friday was caused by the rebels, or the “terrorists”, as they put it.
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Islamic State captures last Syria-Iraq border post
Islamic State fighters are reported to have seized the last border crossing between Syria and Iraq, in the latest advance by the jihadist group against Bashar al-Assad’s struggling military.
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Palmyra: more than just ancient ruins under Isis control
Concerns are raised over the fate of ancient monuments in the Syrian city of Palmyra – but the victory by the Islamic State group is first and foremost a strategic one.
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Alex Thomson
Was there a massacre in the Syrian town of Aqrab?
Alex Thomson is the first western journalist to reach the outskirts of Aqrab – a Syrian town from which reports are emerging of a “major massacre”.
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Alex Thomson
The badlands of Syria’s vicious civil war
Amid the fog of Syria’s civil war reports emerge of a boy encouraged to behead “an enemy of God”, while civilians continue to be killed in indiscriminate attacks.
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Alex Thomson
The battle to report the facts of Syria’s war
Shell bursts would occur every few minutes, at all parts of the town. They fell from the southern fringes to the northern end of the town with utter unpredictability.
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Claims of new Syrian ‘massacre by government troops’
Syrian opposition activists accuse President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of a massacre of scores of people in a town close to the capital that the army has just retaken from rebels.
