Middle East

The battle for Damascus may have begun, but Syria has the biggest arsenal of chemical weapons in the Middle East – and what is to stop them being used if they fall into the wrong hands?

Syrian government forces are targeting the neighbourhood where some Baba Amr residents have fled, while the Red Cross is frustrated in its efforts to deliver aid to Baba Amr itself.

Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum on the loss of her friend, veteran war reporter, Marie Colvin.

The problem with brokering a resolution to the situation in Syria is that there are just too many regional actors with different agendas.

Eight opposition leaders are sentenced to life in prison in Bahrain. Human rights groups tell Channel 4 News the defendants were tortured and that the trials are “a travesty of justice”.

Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller on the signing of a deal between former rivals Hamas and Fatah to bring in a joint caretaker government for Palestine.

Jonathan Rugman encounters a bubble of unreality in Tripoli, Libya, where the revolution has and yet has not taken hold, and misinformation is the order of the day.

Alex Thomson returns to Tunisia to find there is still a lot of unfinished business in the country which triggered the Arab uprisings.

It seems to me that this does not add up to a regime in its last hours. It does not appear to be a regime in its very last days even, blogs Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.