United Nations talks with the Syrian government over an investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons have reached an impasse, UN diplomats say.
The Syrian government has carried out repeated, indiscriminate and sometimes deliberate, air strikes against civilians, a report from Human Rights Watch says.
Alex Thomson
Reporting on Syria’s civil war is proving a dangerous business, but is the reluctance of media organisations to tell of the true risks actually doing the public a disservice?
Alex Thomson
Everybody knows the only people out on the streets after dark are rebel fighters or the army taking them on, but for a mother of three boys the daily battle is for rent, gas for heating and cooking and basic foods.
Alex Thomson
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson chances upon a factory manager battling to keep a sense of normality in war torn Syria.
Jihadists are increasingly prominent in the fight against the Syrian government, which has so far claimed over 70,000 lives. Channel 4 News maps the gains made by the most powerful groups.
Syrian rebels have amassed large arsenals of weapons – through smuggling and raids on government facilities. Channel 4 News reveals some of the weapons being used against Bashar al-Assad’s government.
Alex Thomson
The UN has a vital job in Syria, but with violence increasing, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the organisation to operate there and staff are being pulled out.
Alex Thomson
Damascus probably sees more sectarian kidnaps now than anywhere else on earth. Hell – why qualify? More kidnaps full stop.
Alex Thomson
With the bombing of the Iman mosque in Syria, “a new day has dawned and in the cynicism of this war a new level of descent has been reached”.
A decade since the war in Iraq, a YouGov poll reveals half the British people are against giving Syria’s rebels any military hardware whatsoever.
Alex Thomson
As President Barack Obama warns Syria against using chemical weapons, it may be too late, according to Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.
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.