Syria’s civilian casualties – does either side care?
I am staring at it right now – the impact zone. Somebody decided this was a target, and whoever it was, they had to have known that it was an area full of civilians.
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson reports from Syria to assess the human cost of the conflict that has now been raging for two years.
Syrian rebels have amassed large arsenals of weapons – through smuggling and raids on government facilities. Channel 4 News reveals some of the weapons being used against Bashar al-Assad’s government.
As part of our special Syria’s Descent series we are hoping to set up a live video chat directly between viewers and Alex Thomson – what would you ask?
I am staring at it right now – the impact zone. Somebody decided this was a target, and whoever it was, they had to have known that it was an area full of civilians.
The UN has a vital job in Syria, but with violence increasing, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the organisation to operate there and staff are being pulled out.
Alex Thomson reports on a bloody day in Damascus as the UN withdraws staff in the latest in our Syria’s Descent series.
Nowhere describes Syria’s disintegration as a nation more acutely than her shattered second city of Aleppo. Nowhere describes the agony of Syria more acutely than that city’s Dar al-Shifah clinic.
Marcel Mettelsiefen has spent several weeks meeting children facing unimaginable horror as they work in a city hospital on Syria’s frontline. (Contains highly distressing footage).
For Aleppo’s children “blood has become like water”. Filmmaker Marcel Mettelsiefen has spent several weeks meeting children facing unimaginable horror as they work in a city hospital.
Damascus probably sees more sectarian kidnaps now than anywhere else on earth. Hell – why qualify? More kidnaps full stop.
The leader of the opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib resigns, in a blow to a diminishing moderate wing of the two-year uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
Rebels seize a strategically significant Syrian air defence base, activists say, as fighting rages near Syria’s border with Israel.
Supporters of Syria’s President Bashar Assad gather in Damascus for the funeral of one of the country’s best-known clerics – Sheik Mohammad al-Buti – who was killed in bomb attack earlier this week.
In the thick of a violent civil war any attempt to point out the strange normality of life in much of central Damascus will be met as blatant pro-Assad war propaganda.
A decade since the war in Iraq, a YouGov poll reveals half the British people are against giving Syria’s rebels any military hardware whatsoever.