How can we find the truth about ‘chemical weapons’ in Syria?
The first, and second, and third response to today’s news from Syria should be to bring out the heavy-duty inverted commas.
The Disasters Emergency Committee has launched an appeal to help three million Syrian people who have been forced to flee their homes and are in urgent need of help. Watch the appeal here.
Syria asks the UN to independently investigate what it claims is the use of chemical weapons by “terrorist groups” – Syria’s name for rebels currently fighting government troops.
The first, and second, and third response to today’s news from Syria should be to bring out the heavy-duty inverted commas.
A glimmer of light amid the horror of the Syrian civil war? Jon Snow blogs on how the violence across the border may have boosted peace talks in Turkey.
In the two years since Syria’s armed uprising began, 70,000 have lost their lives – yet Europe remains deeply divided over whether to arm the rebels trying to overthrow President Assad.
A leading charity warns two million Syrian children have had their lives torn apart, as the Prince of Wales, on a visit to a Jordanian refugee camp, describes their plight as “heartbreaking”.
New footage, said to be from a Syrian government tank, shows the desolation in Damascus, as the country’s refugee crisis worsens and the government targets rebel-held Raqqa.
As Syria’s civil war increases humanitarian suffering throughout the country, will the UK’s pledge of non-lethal help merely extend its conflict, asks Jonathan Miller.
As the foreign secretary announces the UK is to supply armoured vehicles to the Syrian opposition, the UN confirms that one million refugees, including 500,000 children, have fled the conflict.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accuses the UK government of bullying and naivety over the conflict in his country, in a rare British newspaper interview.
More than a million people are likely to have fled Syria within the next few weeks, exceeding the UN’s “worst-case scenario”, according to Oxfam.
You see him here, you see him there – the Syrian man with an uncanny knack of turning up whenever the cameras roll has become a figure of fun for Syrian exiles. And he’s not alone.
More than 140 people, half of them children, have been killed in Syria in a series of scud missile attacks over the last few days, according to activists.
Syria’s foreign minister says the government is ready to hold talks with the opposition, but a rebel leader says there can be no dialogue while President Bashar al-Assad remains in power.
The new American Secretary of State, John Kerry, urges the Syrian opposition to attend an international meeting, promising the US is not planning “simply to talk”, but is “confident” of results.