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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Alex Thomson
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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
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
The battle for truth in Damascus
It is a matter of some regret that the Syrian government press conference yesterday was held so late in the day that I could not be there. Clearly it was some spectacle. Not since the dying days of the Saddam regime in Baghdad and the primetime performances of “Comical Ali” have we heard such arrant nonsense coming from a government mouthpiece. In fact, several government mouthpieces.
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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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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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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
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.