Syria uprising videos

Opposition activists in Syria claim the regime has launched a series of chemical attacks against rebel held areas outside Damascus – and say hundreds of people have shown signs of exposure.

We showed last night’s film about British women fighting in the Syrian Civil War to a group of British Muslims. Jane Deith reports on their reaction.

More and more “jihadi boys” leave Britain for Syria to join a holy war to “do their duty”. Police are seeking two such young Muslims from Birmingham, thought to be in the Middle East. Why do they go?

MP’s to vote on whether the UK should send arms to Syria. Confirmation came two days after David Cameron stated that the government reserved the right to arm rebels without Commons approval.

Channel 4 news speaks to former adviser to Boris Yeltsin Alexander Nekrassov and a former US diplomat and Pentagon adviser, Charles Dunne

Channel 4 News looks at the role that foreign fighters are playing on the rebel side in the Syrian conflict.

Jonathan Rugman reports from a Hassan Nasrallah rally in Beirut, where Hezbollah supporters seem to regard the conflict across the border in Syria as an existential fight for their own survival.

What drove the university-educated Londoner Ibrahim al-Mazwagi to fight and die in Syria’s civil war? What drove him to jihad and how many others are there like him in the UK?

Ibrahim al-Mazwagi grew up in a middle-class family in London. But the 21-year-old jihadi left behind his home comforts to fight and die in Syria, writes Inigo Gilmore.

In this Channel 4 News exclusive, British and other western jihadi fighters are shown in Syria as never before – fighting and killing, shopping and preparing for a wedding. Inigo Gilmore reports.

As new figures show 93,000 have died in Syria’s bloody civil war, how can ever-growing Sunni-Shia tensions be stopped to avoid dragging neighbouring Lebanon in the worsening sectarian conflict?

Iran’s support of Syria in its civil war is not about the common Shia religious belief, but more about politics – with Iranians blaming the west for backing the rebel “terrorists” fighting Assad.

As Syria’s conflict continues to spiral downwards, is the civil war allowing religious extremists to flourish and worsen Sunni and Shia tensions? Jonathan Rugman reports.

The Syrian rebel apparently pictured “eating a soldier’s heart” was captured in a Channel 4 News report last year. Filmmaker Mani recalls Abu Sakkar joking that he would “cut his throat”.

A British blogger has been monitoring weapons used in the Syrian conflict, providing important analysis of the conflict for human rights groups – while working from his Leicester home.