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Syria’s war: no one controls the castle forever
The Islamist rebels who have been occupying the Crac des Chevaliers crusader castle near Homs probably didn’t spend much time contemplating the irony of it all.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad makes a rare public appearance as he visits a recently recaptured Christian town. State television reported that presidential elections will take place on 3 June.
The British government says Syrian presidential elections, to take place in June, will have “no value or credibility”.
Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad tells Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum that Syrian civilans are safe from government fire – but there will be no mercy with terrorists.
The Islamist rebels who have been occupying the Crac des Chevaliers crusader castle near Homs probably didn’t spend much time contemplating the irony of it all.
So Crimea has voted. It was messy, ugly, but it is also undeniably true that the majority will of the people in Crimea has prevailed – so what does the west do now?
Has Washington forgotten what is now the worst humanitarian crisis in modern times? Or has the argument for intervention in Syria simply been lost?
With the eyes of the world on Ukraine, an escalated campaign of barrel bombings by the regime of Bashar al-Assad has led to the indiscriminate killing of men, women and children in Syria.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, distribute food parcels to 18,000 isolated civilians in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus.
New pictures and a “martyrdom” video are released of a British Muslim man suspected of being Britain’s first suicide bomber in Syria. Home Affairs Correspondent Darshna Soni reports.
The operation to evacuate the city of Homs, with men aged 15-55 exempted from the deal between government and rebels, shows how hard it is to establish a human corridor in Syria.
Video emerges of hundreds of Syrians allegedly being targeted by shelling as they are evacuated from the besieged city of Homs, as the latest round of peace talks begins in Geneva.
Aid workers resume humanitarian operations in Homs – a day after they came under fire in the besieged rebel heart of the Syrian city.
Four members of an aid convoy bringing humanitarian supplies to Homs in Syria are wounded by rebel fighters.
The besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus is awash with suffering. Amid the despair, a group of friends found a piano and have uploaded their songs of resilience to the internet.
Syria will complete the removal of chemical weapons from the country by the end of the month, and will attend the next round of Geneva peace talks, senior Russian ministers say.