Lindsey Hilsum
At least half of Aleppo’s Armenians have left the country. Once again, their community is divided and endangered. And once again, they regard Turkey as the chief cause of their problems.
Lindsey Hilsum
The physical damage to Aleppo is shocking, but the destruction of people’s lives will be much harder to repair.
Lindsey Hilsum
Driving to Aleppo, the Springsteen song My City of Ruins began to play in my head. But Aleppo is nowhere near rising up – and it may yet have further to fall.
Turkish anarchists, who made headlines around the world during the battle for Taksim Square, have decamped to the besieged Kurdish town of Kobani to support the fight against the Islamic State.
Alex Thomson
The simple and obvious question to ask today is this: would parliament be discussing bombing Iraq for a third war if the USA were not already doing so?
More than 130,000 Syrian Kurd refugees have crossed into Turkey from the north of Syria in the last three days as they flee Islamic State militants.
Turkey closes some of its border crossings with Syria following an influx of more than 100,000 Kurdish refugees in two days, fleeing an advance by the Islamic State.
Jonathan Rugman
The latest Islamic State film, of Briton John Cantlie, does not show his last moments. Is this a major change in the jihadist group’s tactics?
Syria’s government is continuing to use chemical weapons in its war against rebels and jihadist groups, a new OPCW report finds.
Jonathan Rugman
The emphasis at the Nato summit has been on forming a new Iraqi government and putting a Muslim, regional face on any “coalition of the willing”.
Jonathan Rugman
The timing of the release of the latest Islamic State video, showing Steven Sotloff’s murder, suggests the lives of other western hostages could be at risk.
The number of people to die in Syria has risen to over 191,000 in three years, but the conflict has “dropped off the international radar”, says the United Nations commissioner.
Lindsey Hilsum
Some say the US and Europe should, while holding their noses, embrace Assad. That may not only be distasteful but also self-defeating: Assad has engineered this situation.
Islamic State Twitter accounts report a major victory in Syria, bringing the jihadist group closer to the Turkish border – and an ancient town associated with the countdown to Armageddon.
Lindsey Hilsum
There are so many different power blocs and interest groups in Iraq and Syria that it is almost impossible to predict where events might lead.