Lindsey Hilsum
Driving through a war zone to Aleppo
Driving to Aleppo, the Springsteen song My City of Ruins began to play in my head. But Aleppo is nowhere near rising up – and it may yet have further to fall.
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Lindsey Hilsum
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Lindsey Hilsum
Homs evacuation: barely a truce, nowhere near a ceasefire
The operation to evacuate the city of Homs, with men aged 15-55 exempted from the deal between government and rebels, shows how hard it is to establish a human corridor in Syria.
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Alex Thomson
Assad’s warning – don’t let Syria become another Somalia
Rebels control large parts of his country: but as President Assad gave a defiant speech to Syrians last night, he played on real fears about its future – and the spectre of a Somali style collapse.
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Alex Thomson
Your guide to what the hell is going on in Syria
The police state is alive and well. Most people appear either to support the regime still or they are hedging their bets and don’t want to confront men with AK47s as yet.
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Alex Thomson
UN report paints dark picture of Syria’s escalating violence
The report plays out two scenarios for the massacre, both of which it says are possible.
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Alex Thomson
Set up to be shot in Syria’s no man’s land?
In a war where they slit the throats of toddlers back to the spine, what’s the big deal in sending a van full of journalists into the killing zone, writes Alex Thomson.
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Alex Thomson
Homs – where two utterly different worlds coexist
Ahead of his departure from Syria where the battle to oust President Bashar al-Assad rages, Channel 4 News’ chief correspondent Alex Thomson delivers his final dispatch.
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Alex Thomson
No easy task for UN monitors in Syria
Alex Thomson blogs on the difficulties facing the UN officers attempting to monitor the Syrian “ceasefire”.
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Alex Thomson
The Syrian secret police, laid bare
Alex Thomson blogs from inside Syria on a regime ruled by a principle of fear, but that is becoming more hollow by the day.
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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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Realpolitik laid bare as Homs falls
As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin calls for reconciliation in Syria, Lindsey Hilsum wonders if he is really moved by the suffering of the citizens of Homs?
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UN's Ban Ki-Moon is right to fear for Syria's future
When the UN Secretary General describes what is already a desperate situation in Syria as “a grim harbinger of worse to come”, you know things are bad.
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Video journalists leading a Syrian media revolution
A band of brand new, out-of-nowhere, self-styled TV news reporters has sprung up in besieged Syrian cities. Their sudden emergence is a startling new phenomenon of the 11-month-long Syrian revolt. It is nothing short of a media revolution.
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Break this Syrian deadlock now pleads a resident of Homs
A journalist from the Syrian town of Homs pleads for a peaceful end to the war of attrition in her country.