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Syria and chemical weapons: 12 key questions
Amid talk of war crimes and red lines, there are some important questions which we should bear in mind.
The UK and France are prepared to supply weapons to those fighting to overthrow Syria’s President Assad. But can they arm the Syrian National Council without weapons reaching pro al-Qaeda forces?
Amid talk of war crimes and red lines, there are some important questions which we should bear in mind.
Why was the Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev not picked up by the FBI and FSB during his trip to and from Dagestan, despite being firmly on their radar?
A first glimpse of some powerful footage from Syria should make us stop and think about the complexities of the war there.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Damascus probably sees more sectarian kidnaps now than anywhere else on earth. Hell – why qualify? More kidnaps full stop.
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.