Syria

I’m joined by the Washington Post’s Associate Editor and columnist David Ignatius.

As so often in these turbulent days here in Washington, Trump’s tweets serve to confuse the issue. Never truer than tonight over what America intends to do in responding to Syria’s apparent use of chemical weapons. Kylie Morris has been to Capitol Hill where senators have been questioning what they say is a lack of…

I’m joined by the Father of the House of Commons, Ken Clarke, a former Chancellor and Home Secretary.

Theresa May’s cabinet spent more than two hours this afternoon in a special meeting to discuss military strikes against President Assad’s forces. Ministers are expected to back her plan for the UK to join action threatened by the United States and its allies. But opposition parties have demanded that Parliament be recalled so MPs have…

President Trump has promised a ‘”forceful” response to the apparent chemical attack. So what could that mean?

Theresa May has declared that the international community “needed to respond” to uphold the worldwide ban on chemical weapons and hold those responsible to account, after talking by phone with President Trump. In the last few moments the French President Emmanuel Macron has said France would decide “within days” with the UK and the United States…

Syrian activists say at least 40 people have been killed in a poison gas attack on Douma – the last rebel-held town in Eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus… rescue teams described finding families suffocated in their homes. Relief workers in the town said hundreds more people had been brought into clinics, with symptoms…

The Syrian government claims its military assault is intensifying in rebel-held eastern Ghouta, with regime forces surrounding two main towns in the embattled region, on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. Aid groups believe around 1000 people have been killed in the last three weeks of fighting.

The Syrian army says it’s on the verge of cutting through the surrounded, rebel-held area of east Ghouta near the capital Damascus. According to human rights groups, more than 900 civilians have been killed there in the last 18 days and the Red Cross has held back an aid convoy because of the intense fighting.…

The question’s simple – the answer is only getting more complicated. Here’s a video explainer of what you need to know.

Former independent Syrian MP Maria Saadeh discusses Eastern Ghouta.

It’s a town that used to house 60,000 people. Now Arbin in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta has just a few thousand inhabitants left. And for the majority of those, the only place to try to escape the artillery and air strikes is underground, sheltering in basements and tunnels. The conditions are desperate.

UN Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria, Panos Moumtzis, discusses Eastern Ghouta.

In the last hour, we have felt dozens of booms and reverberations as the Syrian army is clearly now using its big artillery guns to hit Eastern Ghouta once more. It came after the first day of humanitarian pause.

Syrian member of parliament Nora Arissian discusses rebel attacks on Damascus.