Syria’s refugees: ‘Our generation got used to blood’
As Syria’s refugee crisis escalates to startling levels, International Editor Lindsey Hilsum speaks to those who have fled the country – and hears unanswerable questions about what happens next.
G20 leaders voice their concerns about a military strike on Syria, as Russia and Iran warn the US not to take action against the Assad regime.
Following his Commons defeat, David Cameron tells Channel 4 News he doesn’t want to “quibble about it for days on end”, adding the British public is deeply sceptical about Syrian intervention.
World leaders are meeting in St Petersburg just days before a crucial vote in Washington on a possible military strike against Syria. But who is calling the shots inside Damascus?
As David Cameron shrugs off his Syria defeat in the Commons, Channel 4 News examines why and how the crucial vote on military action was lost – and the key players behind the event.
“My credibility is not on the line. The international community’s credibility is on the line.” As President Obama and western leaders debate action against Syria – how far are their hands tied?
Barack Obama says his approach to military intervention in Syria is not under scrutiny – it is the credibility of the US congress and international community that is on the line.
Opposition activists claim a former Syrian defence minister has fled to Turkey and could become a “top source of information” on the Assad regime.
Barack Obama’s struggles to get support for military intervention in Syria have not gone unnoticed by Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers – who have been circulating cartoons mocking the US president.
As Syria’s refugee crisis escalates to startling levels, International Editor Lindsey Hilsum speaks to those who have fled the country – and hears unanswerable questions about what happens next.
As Barack Obama says he is “confident” congress will vote in favour of military action in Syria, Channel 4 News explores the relationships between Syria, her Middle Eastern neighbours, and the west.
The number of refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war has topped two million, the UN’s refugee agency says, in what it is calling the “great tragedy of this century”.
Senior Republican congressman Mike Turner says US President Barack Obama has neither congressional nor public, support for military intervention in Syria, and “should have done his homework”.
A British woman whose Syrian husband is desperate to join her in the UK says new family migration rules are keeping them apart and putting his life at risk.
President Barack Obama says he is confident that congress will vote in favour of military action and that the US will “degrade” President Bashar al-Assad’s capabilities.
As an opinion poll shows three quarters of people don’t support bombing Syria, Alex Thomson heads to Jack Straw’s patch in search of any people in favour.