Behind the scenes of Syria’s propaganda war
Alex Thomson blogs on the battle to win the propaganda war in Syria – and what is motivating foreign interference.
Former US deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz says the international community should have supported the Syrian opposition months ago and time has now run out.
With Syrian forces pounding rebel-held areas of Aleppo with helicopter gunships on Friday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he fears another massacre on the scale of Srebrenica.
United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Foreign Secretary William Hague meet in London for talks aimed at ending Syria’s civil war.
Alex Thomson blogs on the battle to win the propaganda war in Syria – and what is motivating foreign interference.
Alex Thomson and his team have a close encounter at a Syrian checkpoint.
As the regime seeks to regain control of Aleppo, Syria’s commercial hub, fighting also flares again in the capital Damascus where another massacre is alleged to have taken place.
Yesterday it was Midan. Today it was al-Qaboon. In both the picture is pretty clear, that any rebel fighters in these areas have been driven from them, writes Alex Thomson.
Aleppo is reportedly bombed by Syrian fighter jets in a blistering attack on the fourth day of clashes between government and rebel forces battling to control the commercial hub.
The rubble remains. The stain on the nation is there. The rebel fighters’ puny barricades were overrun with ease by Syrian’s military might by land and by air. Yes – the Battle of Midan has been won. The war, is quite another matter, writes Alex Thomson from Syria.
Syria promises not to use chemical weapons against its own citizens, an action UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon says that would be “reprehensible”. Alex Thomson reports live from Damascus.
Bizarrely, the Syrian regime will happily allow you to film its dead soldiers but makes filming living ones all but impossible.
Syrian rebels battle President Assad’s forces near Aleppo as helicopter gunships bombard several districts of Damascus in an effort to drive out insurgents, witnesses claim.
“Traffic cops, immaculate and in designer shades, politely ask to see our Ministry of Information permission. Presently, sensibly in the shade of some trees, a not-so-very-secret mukhabarrat secret policeman will radio our information to his desk from our translator.”
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs from the Lebanese/Syrian border, which 30,000 Syrians have crossed in recenty days.
Clashes between Syrian troops and opposition fighters in Damascus continue amid claims from the opposition that President Assad is now in the coastal city of Latakia.