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Syria conflict: Eid al-Adha ceasefire – live updates
Welcome to Middle East Live on the first day of an unmonitored ceasefire in Syria to mark the Eid al-Adha…
Syria conflict: doubts over Eid ceasefire – live updates
Welcome to Middle East Live. The Assad government is due to announce whether it will observe a ceasefire over Eid al-Adha,…
Syria conflict: Brahimi takes ceasefire plan to Damascus – live updates
Welcome to Middle East Live. The International envoy on Syria is expected to take his calls for ceasefire to Damascus…
Syria crisis: ceasefire calls ignored – live updates
Welcome to Middle East Live. Turkey and the Pope have backed calls for a ceasefire in Syria, but the rebels…
Syria crisis: US concerned weapons reaching jihadis – Tuesday 16 October 2012
Welcome to Middle East Live. Here's roundup of the latest developments: Syria • The US state department has publicly admitted it is…
Syria crisis: US concerned over weapons reaching jihadis – live updates
Welcome to Middle East Live. Here's roundup of the latest developments: Syria • The US state department has publicly admitted it is…
Turkey says Syrian plane carried arms – Thursday 11 October 2012
Here's a summary of the latest developments: Syria-Turkey tensions • A Syrian passenger plane from Moscow has arrived in Damascus after being…
Syria crisis: US sends troops to Jordan – Wednesday 10 October 2012
Welcome to Middle East Live. Here's a roundup of the latest developments: Syria • The US has secretly sent a taskforce of more than…
Syria crisis: bombs hit security complex – Tuesday 9 October 2012
The opposition Syrian National Council has refused to condemn last night’s suicide bombing in Harasta, but a leading member of…
Turkey issues new warnings to Syria – Friday 5 October 2012
Welcome to Middle East Live. We start with a roundup of the latest developments: Syria-Turkey tensions • A UN security council statement…
Syria crisis: fight for Aleppo – Friday 28 September 2012
Security forces in Damascus have raided Jobar district today, as well as Barzeh (see earlier post). In a Skype interview with our colleague Mona Mahmood, as resident of Jobar who gave his name as Khalid Hassan described what happened: Security men…
Syria crisis: bombs and shelling hit Damascus – Friday 7 September 2012
Reuters provides an overview of the carnage in Damascus, including government shelling in Yarmouk and the bomb attacks. Syrian forces bombarded a crowded Palestinian refugee district in Damascus, killing at least 10 people according to residents, while...…
Syria crisis: Aleppo rebels vow to fight on – Thursday 6 September 2012
Our colleague Mona Mahmood has been talking via Skype to Abdul Rahman Ahmed, a resident of Darayya district in Damascus which was the scene of a massacre last month. He told her about the situation there today. Darayya has been calm…
Libya: Gaddafi’s spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi extradited – Wednesday 5 September 2012
Our colleague Mona Mahmood has spoken on the telephone to Major General Muhammed Hussein al-Haj Ali, commander of the newly-announced opposition Syrian National Army. Haj Ali was director of the National Defence College in Syria until he defected a mon...…
Syria crisis: Assad’s new offensive in Aleppo – Wednesday 8 August
There was a long and very interesting series of posts last night from a Twitter user known as The 47th about organisational changes in the Free Syrian Army.We must make clear that we have no idea who The 47th is,…
Syria crisis: Kofi Annan resigns as peace envoy
Five months ago, I was asked to take on the role of joint special envoy for Syria, in order to seek a peaceful solution to the crisis, an end to the killings of civilians, the human rights abuses, and a…
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