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Syria: has the nightmare of chemical warfare arrived?
As President Barack Obama warns Syria against using chemical weapons, it may be too late, according to Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.
As President Barack Obama warns Syria against using chemical weapons, it may be too late, according to Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.
Jack Straw clearly cannot stand by the statement that the British are not kidnapping and torturing people using third-party countries, merely that he insists he was not involved himself.
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.
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.
After yesterday’s bloodshed in Syria – one of the deadliest days in the conflict – there was further violence today, with at least 29 people killed in rocket attacks in Aleppo.
Offensive, provocative or anti-Semitic? Gerald Scarfe apologises over the timing of his Sunday Times cartoon, but insists his sketch was a criticsm of Israel’s prime minister – not the Jewish people.
Healthcare professionals in Syria caring for the war-wounded are being deliberately targeted by Bashir al-Assad’s regime, says the International Rescue Committee.
Rebels control large parts of his country: but as President Assad gave a defiant speech to Syrians last night, he played on real fears about its future – and the spectre of a Somali style collapse.
The United Nations has dramatically raised the number of people killed in the Syrian uprising and civil war – calling the death toll “truly shocking”. Dozens more people died in attacks today.
“At the risk of repeating myself, there’s some nonsense being pedalled on social media about the story we broke recently in Aqrab.”
“We were able to film an airport which – contrary to the impression that has gone global – is not just open, but functioning.”
It is that most mundane of journeys, from the capital city to the international airport, which you’ve done so many times, which really brings home how things are changing here in Syria.
Syria’s capital has changed profoundly since Alex Thomson last visited in the summer, with checkpoints now scattered across the city and the rumble of fighter bomber attacks in the distance.
Former hostage Terry Waite returns to Lebanon to meet Hezbollah, the organisation believed to be responsible for kidnapping and torturing him when he was the Archbishop of Canterbury’s envoy.
As things grow ever tetchier around Damascus, we need to remind ourselves in the UK that we won’t get fooled again over chemical weapons claims.