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Escape from Homs: video emerges of Syrian evacuation
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.
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Survivor mode: refugee children at Jordan’s Zaatari camp
Traumatised and exploited, most of the Syrian children in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan are not at school. But as Lindsey Hilsum reports, there are no better options available.
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Syrian army launches major assault on Homs
Syria President Bashar al-Assad’s forces launch a major offensive against Homs, in a bid to flush rebel fighters out of the country’s third-largest city.
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Syria civil war: fighters killed in Lebanon border clash
Several fighters die in an overnight clash between Hezbollah fighters and Syrian rebel forces in Lebanon’s eastern border region with Syria.
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Syria’s Descent: a normal week of bloodshed
Missile and mortar attacks in Aleppo and Syria, fierce clashes and claims of chemical weapon use – a typical week in Syria paints a grim picture of a country at war.
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Rebels capture key Syrian air base, activists claim
Rebels seize a strategically significant Syrian air defence base, activists say, as fighting rages near Syria’s border with Israel.
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Dozens of Syrian troops die in rebel suicide attack
An encampment of Syrian government forces has been targeted by two suicide bomb attacks today, with reports that dozens have been killed or injured.
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Assad troops die in rebel bomb attack
An encampment of Syrian government forces has been targeted by two suicide bomb attacks today, with reports that dozens have been killed or injured.
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Claims of new Syrian ‘massacre by government troops’
Syrian opposition activists accuse President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of a massacre of scores of people in a town close to the capital that the army has just retaken from rebels.
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Opposition declares battle for Damascus has begun
As the Assad regime fights back in the south of Damascus, its opponents in the Free Syrian Army say they have launched their fight for the capital, dubbed “Operation Damascus Volcano”.
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‘Constructive’ Syria talks between Assad and Annan
UN envoy to Syria Kofi Annan has suggested his six-point peace plan could be revived after “constructive and positive” talks with President Bashar al-Assad.
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Syrian pilot defects from the regime
The pilot of a Syrian fighter plane on a training flight has flown to Jordan and made an emergency landing at a military base to ask for political asylum.
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The failure of Annan’s six-point plan for Syria
When it comes to Syria there is widespread agreement on one thing: Kofi Annan’s peace plan is failing. Channel 4 News looks at each point of the plan and asks whether any progress has been made?
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After condemnation of the horror in Houla, Assad has reason to be worried
Bashar and Asma al-Assad, Syria’s one-time golden couple, beguiled the West, then betrayed their own people. In the aftermath of the Houla massacre, Channel 4 News’s Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller considers evidence of President Assad’s personal responsibility for crimes against humanity.
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Assad circle ‘could be charged with crimes against humanity’
As outrage grows over the Houla massacre, Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller considers evidence of President Assad’s personal responsibility for crimes against humanity.
