Civilian casualties

An activist in Syria tells Channel 4 News that the army are indiscriminately shelling villages surrounding the city of Jisr al-Shughour, as dozens more are killed in protests across the country.

Syria must stop “bludgeoning its own people”, says the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, as 1,500 people flee to Turkey and footage emerges of a second mutilated boy.

Amnesty International reveals to Channel 4 News that it has the names of 77 children killed in the recent violence, plus reports of a third child tortured to death.

This season’s grand prix in Bahrain, where there has been political unrest since February, will not go ahead after Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone admitted it could not be rescheduled.

Syrian troops with tanks are believed to be moving on the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughur after the Assad regime vowed ‘firm retribution’ on ‘armed groups’ who they say killed 120 soldiers.

Exclusive: As the woman who became the face of Libya’s rebel struggle heads to the US, Channel 4 News reveals how – after her alleged rape by Gaddafi troops – she suffered “outrageously” in Qatar.

The world motor racing body agrees to reinstate Bahrain in the Formula One circuit later in the year, despite a heavy crackdown on opposition protests during 11 weeks of martial law.

Exclusive: Hundreds of girls and women have been raped in Haiti’s makeshift refugee camps and, as Channel 4 News reporter Inigo Gilmore reveals, their attackers are rarely punished.

Anti-government protesters in Syria renew efforts as footage emerges of the mutilated body of a 13-year old-boy. Human Rights Watch say the abuses amount to “crimes against humanity”.

A Serbian court rejects an appeal against the extradition of Ratko Mladic, allowing the former Bosnian-Serb general to be tried in the Hague for war crimes.

A primary school teacher in Mexico has been praised after she kept her pupils calm by singing songs as a shootout took place outside.

Just weeks before Sudan’s partition, up to 80,000 people flee Abyei after it was seized by the North. The UN’s Force Commander in Sudan tells Channel 4 News of his “great concern” at the suffering.

Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson talks to General Ratko Mladic in September 1995, where he denies Bosnian-Serb forces massacred civilians in Sarajevo and Srebrenica.

Forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi continue to lay siege the rebel stronghold of Misrata, with reports saying up to 160 people have been killed in the city in the past week.

Libyan rebels say they are preparing for a fresh push west after being forced to retreat by Gaddafi forces.