G8/Syria: Obama silent and Cameron light on support
Arming the Syrian rebels: David Cameron is like “a man who drags his friend to the bar only to discover he’s got no money himself to buy a round”.
On World Refugee Day, Reem Alsalem from UNHCR writes for Channel 4 News on the refugees who came to Syria to start a new life – but find themselves trapped in a new crisis.
Arming the Syrian rebels: David Cameron is like “a man who drags his friend to the bar only to discover he’s got no money himself to buy a round”.
Countries justify their involvement in conflict by claiming they are fighting a “just war”. But the moral struggle in Syria may be morphing into a power play between the west and Russia.
Channel 4 News looks at the role that foreign fighters are playing on the rebel side in the Syrian conflict.
The leaders of the G8 nations gather to attend the summit in Northern Ireland on Monday, with Syria’s crisis dominating the agenda.
Channel 4 news speaks to former adviser to Boris Yeltsin Alexander Nekrassov and a former US diplomat and Pentagon adviser, Charles Dunne
Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, says the government is undecided on whether on not to supply weapons to Syrian rebels and will debate on the matter.
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.
The US says it will increase military assistance, including arms, to Syrian rebels after claiming Damascus used chemical weapons. But the Syrian government dismisses the claim as “full of lies”.
Damascus is the chemical weapons capital of Syria, with vast and often secret research, production and storage facilities littered across the city. Click around this interactive guide.
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?
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.
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?
With Syria’s civil war seen by many as a Sunni-Shia conflict, Jon Snow travels to the holy city of Qom in Iran to find out what part religious rivalry plays in Syria’s ever-worsening conflict.