The battle for Syria: special report

As the news channels focused on violence in Gaza and the tragedy of MH17, what else happened? Channel 4 News finds out.

Two men plead guilty to travelling to Syria to join al-Qaeda militants, after they were turned in to police by their worried parents. Home Affairs Correspondent Darshna Soni reports.

In a live Channel 4 News debate, a jihadi trainer says he is “looking into Isis” but his main aim is ridding Syria of Assad, while a British aid worker warns “someone’s going to lash out” in the UK.

The head of the global chemical weapons watchdog tells Channel 4 News it is an “open question” if hidden chemical weapons remain in Syria, two days after the last shipment was supposed to have left.

A car bomb in Syria’s western Hama province kills 34 and wounds more than 50, Syria’s state news agency SANA reports.

Grinning from ear to ear, Syrian extremist rebel commander Abu Omar al-Shishani climbs out of a US-made Humvee – freshly delivered from Iraq where his extremist group is making gains.

President Bashar al-Assad is widely expected to win a third seven-year term in office, as Syrians head to the polls in the middle of a civil war that has killed more than 160,000 people.

Amateur video purports to show heavy fighting between rebels and Syrian government forces in Deraa, on the outskirts of Damascus.

Syrian rebels spend three months tunnelling under Aleppo to set off 23 tonnes of explosives, levelling the historic Carlton Hotel and killing around 100 soldiers and government militia members.

Syria, Central African Republic and Iraq top a new index of conflict and political violence which gives 16 countries an “extreme risk” rating and sees Ukraine jumping to 35th most at-risk country.

Rebels begin withdrawing from the city of Homs – a central battleground in the Syrian civil war, once known as the “capital of the revolution” – in a major symbolic victory for Bashar al-Assad.

William Hague says reports that chemical weapons have once again been used against the people of Syria are “utterly sickening”.

Counter-terror police launch an unprecedented campaign to persuade British Muslim women to inform on family members planning to travel to Syria to fight.

A video posted online purports to show the living conditions for rebels fighting the Syrian government, through the eyes of a British jihadi. Channel 4 News has not independently verified this video.