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SYRIA: DESCENT INTO THE ABYSS COPYRIGHT INTRODUCTION 2011

PROTESTS SWEEP THROUGH SYRIA AS TROOPS OPEN FIRE DESPERATE ASSAD TRIES TO BLUNT UPRISING WITH NEW PROMISES OF REFORM PRESIDENT OFFERS OLIVE BRANCH TO PROTESTERS AS VIOLENCE ESCALATES ASSAD HOPES SYRIAN CABINET’S RESIGNATION WILL DEFUSE PROTESTS SHOTS FIRED AS PROTESTERS TAKE TO THE STREETS AGAIN ASSAD VOWS TO OVERCOME THE ‘FOREIGN CONSPIRACIES’ CAN PRESIDENT ASSAD DO WHAT IT TAKES TO CLEANSE HIS CORRUPT REGIME? EVERY CONCESSION MAKES THE PRESIDENT MORE VULNERABLE IF THE RUMOURS AND CONSPIRACIES ARE TRUE, THEN PRESIDENT ASSAD’S REGIME IS ON THE ROAD TO CIVIL WAR WESTERN INTERVENTION IN SYRIA WOULD MAKE MATTERS WORSE OUT OF SYRIA’S DARKNESS COME TALES OF TERROR ‘WE WILL NEVER CEASE OUR STRUGGLE UNTIL WE BRING DOWN ASSAD’ TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION? IT WON’T HAPPEN IN SYRIA AS TANKS LINE THE STREETS, SYRIANS STAND FIRM TO DEFY BRUTAL REGIME THE PEOPLE VS THE PRESIDENT REFUGEES TAKE FLIGHT AS TROOPS LAUNCH ATTACKS ON REBEL STRONGHOLD ‘THEY SHOT PEOPLE WHO WERE TRYING TO GET AWAY’ UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS, ASSAD’S ENEMIES TAKE UP ARMS AS THEIR FOE CLOSES IN REFUGEES FEAR A MASSACRE AS SYRIAN TANKS ADVANCE ON BORDER THOUSANDS OF SYRIANS MARCH WHILE MILITARY CONTINUES TO ATTACK THEY CAME AT DAWN, AND KILLED IN COLD BLOOD ‘NO WONDER THEY WERE RIOTING IN DAMASCUS. THIS WAS INSULTING BOTH TO THE LIVING AND TO THE DEAD’ THE NEW FOCUS OF SYRIA’S CRACKDOWN HAS SEEN SIMILAR BLOODSHED BEFORE THIS SLAUGHTER WILL END ONLY WHEN WORDS OF CONDEMNATION ARE ACTED ON IT’S HIS FAST-DISAPPEARING BILLIONS THAT WILL WORRY ASSAD, NOT WORDS FROM WASHINGTON WE ARE ALL READY TO BE MARTYRED FOR SYRIA AND OUR PRESIDENT’ SYRIA SLIPS TOWARDS SECTARIAN WAR ‘THE ARMY WAS TOLD NOT TO FIRE AT PROTESTERS’ WHAT THE KILLING OF GADDAFI MEANS TO SYRIA ASSAD WILL ONLY GO IF HIS OWN TANKS TURN AGAINST HIM AT LEAST 70 DIE IN UPRISING AS VIOLENCE ESCALATES PLEA TO THE WEST: SYRIA NEEDS LIBYA-STYLE INTERVENTION BRITAIN IN SECRET TALKS WITH SYRIAN REBELS COMPARED WITH SYRIA, THE FALL OF LIBYA WAS A PIECE OF CAKE AS ONE REBELLION REIGNITES, ASSAD WILL SENSE A CHANCE TO SET HIS HOUSE IN ORDER EXILE DREAMS OF A BLOODLESS RETURN AFTER A LIFE SPENT STANDING UP TO ASSAD REGIME ONLY A CRAZY LEADER KILLS HIS OWN PEOPLE, SAYS ASSAD SYRIA BLAMES AL-QA’IDA AS TWO SUICIDE BLASTS KILL 40

2012

ASSAD FACES HIS PEOPLE’S HATRED - BUT AS THEIR ANGER GROWS, HIS EXCUSES ARE STILL JUST THE SAME SYRIA IS USED TO THE SLINGS AND ARROWS OF FRIENDS AND ENEMIES FROM WASHINGTON THIS LOOKS LIKE SYRIA’S ‘BENGHAZI MOMENT’. BUT NOT FROM HERE ASSAD IS NOT FIRING ARTILLERY AT CIVILIANS, CLAIMS RUSSIA BRITAIN COMPILES DOSSIER OF RIGHTS ABUSES IN SYRIA COULD THERE BE SOME BAD GUYS AMONG THE REBELS TOO? ALL THE EVIDENCE POINTS TO SECTARIAN CIVIL WAR IN SYRIA, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO ADMIT IT SYRIA’S SECTARIAN WAR GOES INTERNATIONAL AS FOREIGN FIGHTERS AND ARMS POUR INTO COUNTRY ASSAD TROOPS TRY TO BLOCK REBELS’ SUPPLY LINE TO TURKEY JOURNALISTS KILLED IN SYRIA ROCKET STRIKE ‘WERE TARGETED’ ASSAD OPENS NEW FRONT IN WAR ON HIS PEOPLE ‘WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF ASSAD ANY LONGER. BUT WHY MUST MORE PEOPLE DIE?’ ‘THERE ARE CHECKPOINTS NEAR THE POLLS. THAT’S HOW THEY FIND YOU’ STATISTICS SHOWING STRONG SUPPORT FOR ASSAD REGIME DAMNED BY THE TRUTH I HAVE TO HELP MY FAMILY, BUT I DID NOT WANT TO SHOOT MY OWN PEOPLE’‘ THE SIEGE-BREAKERS WHO PROVIDE A LIFELINE IN THE PROVINCE OF DEATH THE REGIME CALLS IT ‘CLEANING’, BUT THE DIRTY TRUTH IS PLAIN TO SEE THE FEARFUL REALITIES KEEPING THE ASSAD REGIME IN POWER UNITED AGAINST A COMMON ENEMY? NEITHER SIDE IS WINNING, NO END IS IN SIGHT THE ATTEMPT TO TOPPLE PRESIDENT ASSAD HAS FAILED ON LEBANON’S BORDER, SILENT SYRIANS ARE FLOCKING TO AN UNKNOWN FUTURE SYRIA IS TOO FAR STEEPED IN BLOOD FOR RESOLUTION BY NEGOTIATION WORLD LEADERS ACCUSE SYRIAN REGIME OF STALLING AS FRAGILE PEACE PLAN CRUMBLES HAGUE HINTS AT HARDER LINE IF REGIME SHUNS SYRIA PEACE PLAN SYRIANS ON EDGE AS UN TEAMS BRING PRECARIOUS PEACE - UNTIL NIGHT FALLS I FEAR THIS TERRIBLE MASSACRE WILL BE THE BEGINNING OF A LONG CIVIL WAR ASSAD BLAMED FOR MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS SYRIA FACES BACKLASH FOR MASSACRE OF INNOCENTS ASSAD REGIME BLAMES MURDEROUS ONSLAUGHT ON HOULA’S REBEL ARMY AS THE BODIES CONTINUE TO MOUNT UP, A PEOPLE ON EDGE PREPARE FOR CIVIL WAR THE WEST IS HORRIFIED BY CHILDREN’S SLAUGHTER NOW. SOON WE’LL FORGET HAGUE SENT PACKING BY RUSSIA AS ANNAN PEACE PLAN CRUMBLES MOVE PUSHES SYRIA - AND RUSSIA - FURTHER OUT INTO THE COLD SYRIA ISOLATED AS WESTERN CAPITALS EXPEL DIPLOMATS WHY WAR IS MARCHING ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS AS EU AND RUSSIA TALK, SYRIA SLIDES EVER CLOSER TO CIVIL WAR THE REBELS ARE BECOMING MORE VIABLE REBELS ACCUSED OF MASSACRE AFTER SEVEN DIE IN ATTACK ON TV STATION WESTERN AGREEMENT ‘COULD LEAVE SYRIA IN ASSAD’S HANDS FOR TWO MORE YEARS’ ASSASSINATIONS ON AN EPIC SCALE - BUT REBELS WILL NOT CLAIM THEIR GREATEST PRIZE ARCHITECTS OF REGIME’S BRUTAL CRACKDOWN PAY THE ULTIMATE PRICE SECTARIANISM BITES INTO SYRIA’S REBELS IF ALAWITES ARE TURNING AGAINST ASSAD THEN HIS FATE IS SEALED REBELS PROMISE ‘FIREWORKS’ FOR ASSAD, USING AFGHAN METHODS YES, THERE’S VIOLENCE, BUT SOME SYRIANS THINK IT’S TIME TO RETURN ‘OUR MEN SAY THEY ARE GOING TO FIGHT TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY’ ‘WE SHALL BE FREE OR WE SHALL SUFFER’ SYRIAN WAR OF LIES AND HYPOCRISY ‘THEY FEAR THE REGIME WILL TAKE REVENGE’ JUBILATION AS REBELS FORCE ASSAD TROOPS TO FLEE BASE FOR THE MINORITIES, EVEN NEUTRALITY IS UNSAFE THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE HAVE FLED. ONLY THE FIGHTERS REMAIN REBELS OVERRUN ALEPPO’S POLICE STATIONS IN ALEPPO ‘WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO US?’: LOYALISTS FEAR REBEL ATTACKS A YOUNG BOY WHO FELT THE FULL FORCE OF ASSAD’S AIR ASSAULT ON ALEPPO ‘YOU CAN ONLY PATCH UP PEOPLE FOR SO LONG. MOST OF THE SERIOUSLY INJURED WE CAN’T SAVE. THE ONLY WAY TO END THIS IS TO DEFEAT ASSAD’ SYRIA’S ANCIENT TREASURES PULVERISED ASSAD’S MERCILESS ASSAULT RISKS WIPING OUT BOTH HIS COUNTRY’S FUTURE - AND ITS PAST THE CITY OVERRUN BY DEATH IS TOLD THE WORST IS YET TO COME ASSAD’S PM JOINS REBELS IN ‘BLESSED REVOLUTION’ DEFECTION DRIVES WEDGE INTO FRACTURED PARTY THE SYRIAN JET TOOK ITS TIME TO PICK A TARGET. THE CHILDREN BORE THE BRUNT ASSAD’S GUNSHIPS AND TANKS LAUNCH HEAVIEST ASSAULT ON ALEPPO REBELS ‘ALEPPO WILL BREAK THE REGIME’ BUT REBELS ARE FORCED TO RETREAT BY HUGE MILITARY ONSLAUGHT ASSAD’S FURY PUTS REBELS TO FLIGHT A DESERTED CITY, A DESERTING UN, AND A STORM ABOUT TO BREAK UN LEAVES SYRIA TO ITS BLOODY FATE ‘THEY SNIPE AT US THEN RUN AND HIDE IN SEWERS’ ‘NO POWER CAN BRING DOWN THE SYRIAN REGIME’ ‘REBEL ARMY? THEY’RE A GANG OF FOREIGNERS’ ALEPPO’S POOR GET CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE SYRIA’S NEWSPAPERS TRUMPET AN ARMY VICTORY BUT THE SOUND OF SHELLFIRE TELLS THE TRUE STORY THE BLOODY TRUTH ABOUT SYRIA’S UNCIVIL WAR AS THE VIOLENCE INTENSIFIES IN SYRIA, THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE WINNER: THE KURDS THE SYRIAN ARMY WOULD LIKE TO APPEAR SQUEAKY CLEAN. IT ISN’T ‘FOREIGNERS HAVE HIJACKED THE PEACEFUL AGENDA OF THE SYRIAN PEOPLE’ INSIDE DARAYA: HOW A FAILED PRISONER SWAP TURNED INTO A MASSACRE MINISTER FOR INFORMATION WHO WANTS TO GO STRAIGHT ANOTHER WEEK IN THE VIOLENT, MURDEROUS AND DIVIDED WORLD OF SYRIA SYRIA’S ROAD FROM JIHAD TO PRISON IN MAALOULA, THE PAST HAS RELEVANCE TO SYRIA’S TRAGIC PRESENT ‘NOW WE KNOW WE WILL GET NO HELP FROM THE WEST’ ‘NO SYRIAN LIKES VIOLENCE... BUT PEOPLE KNOW THERE IS NO GOING BACK. IF THEY RETURN HOME, THEY WILL DIE ONE BY ONE’ SYRIAN REBELS STRIKE AT HEART OF REGIME WITH TWIN BOMB ATTACK SYRIAN REBELS’ BACKERS BLOCK ARMS CACHE UNTIL BICKERING FACTIONS UNITE ‘THE FINAL STRAW’: TURKEY AUTHORISES ATTACK ON SYRIA PLUCKY LITTLE TURKEY STANDING UP TO EVIL SYRIA? IT’S NOT AS SIMPLE AS THAT A CEASEFIRE FOR EID - BUT THE BATTLE FOR ALEPPO GOES ON HOW REBELS WERE SOLD EXPLODING RIFLES - BY A BRITON NAMED ‘EMILE’ ‘WE LEFT HOMS BECAUSE THEY WERE TRYING TO KILL US. THEY WANTED TO KILL US BECAUSE WE ARE CHRISTIANS’ IF MAKDISSI HAS GONE, CHAOS REALLY IS CLOSE TO PRESIDENT’S DOOR THE TRUTH ABOUT CHEMICAL WEAPONS AND WHO MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE THEM NO POWER, NO PEOPLE, NO HOPE: HOW DAMASCUS BECAME A CITY AT WAR SYRIA’S REBELS REACH DAMASCUS SUBURBS, BUT CANNOT BREAK THE CIVIL-WAR DEADLOCK ASSAD’S STRATEGY SHIFT KEEPS REBELS AT GATES OF DAMASCUS HOMS IS CALM - BUT THE FEAR REMAINS UK MILITARY IN TALKS TO HELP SYRIA REBELS REBELS URGE WESTERN ALLIES TO HELP SOONER FEAR AND LOATHING OF SYRIAN REGIME’S FALLEN SOLDIERS ‘HE HASN’T DISAPPEARED. HE’S JUST ON THREE MONTHS’ LEAVE’ ASSAD’S SENSE OF SECURITY SHAKEN AS RUSSIA ADMITS HE COULD YET BE OUSTED PEACE WILL NOT BREAK OUT WITHOUT TOUGH BARGAINING RUSSIA DENIES IT IS SWITCHING SUPPORT TO SYRIAN REBELS SYRIA: THE DESCENT INTO HOLY WAR PERSECUTION OF THE CHRISTIANS SYRIA IS MANY CONFLICTS ROLLED INTO ONE. IT IS ALSO AT THE CENTRE OF TWO REGIONAL STRUGGLES

2013

SYRIAN REGIME CAPTURES AL-QA’IDA CHIEF’S BROTHER ON ‘AID MISSION’ SYRIA’S CARNAGE IS NOT IN DISPUTE. BUT THE NUMBERS ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO QUANTIFY THE REAL TARGET OF ASSAD’S THEATRICAL DISPLAY WAS HIS ARMY ASSAD HINTS AT TALKS WITH WEST - BUT NOT WITH ‘REBEL PUPPETS’ NEW FEARS ON SYRIA’S CHEMICAL WEAPONS AT THIS RATE, ASSAD COULD BE STILL IN POWER A YEAR FROM NOW IT DOESN’T TAKE MUCH TO MAKE PROTESTERS BEHAVE LIKE DICTATORS REVEALED: RUSSIA’S DOUBLE DEALING ON ARMS TO ASSAD BRITAIN CAN GIVE MILITARY SUPPORT TO SYRIAN REBELS PITY WILLIAM HAGUE, HIS REVOLT’S BEEN HIJACKED WEST HAS NEVER UNDERSTOOD SYRIA - JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE HISTORY BOOKS CONFLICT IN SYRIA CREATES NEW WAVE OF BRITISH JIHADISTS ARMING THE ‘RIGHT’ REBELS IS THE REAL ISSUE WESTERN MEDDLING IN SYRIA WILL ONLY FUEL THE SUNNI INSURGENCY SYRIAN CRISIS CAN BE MEASURED IN ITS TOLL ON PEOPLE - AND HISTORY IRAQI AL-QA’IDA DECLARES TAKEOVER OF LEADING SYRIAN REBEL FACTION THE WAR HAS REACHED DAMASCUS, BUT FOR MANY IT IS NOT A WAR ZONE MOBILES BECOME WEAPONS AS TACTICS CHANGE IN SYRIA’S NEW PHONEY WAR ASSAD’S ARMY IS STARTING TO CALL THE SHOTS A BARBARIC WAR THROWS UP A HORROR STORY THAT MAKES VILLAINS OF ALL ‘WE DON’T REALLY KNOW WHAT WAR IS LIKE. WE HAVEN’T SEEN IT YET’ ‘RELIGION SHOULD MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY, NOT BE USED TO CONTROL PEOPLE’ WHO WILL WIN THE BATTLE FOR SYRIA’S FUTURE? NOBODY THE LIFESAVERS WHO TOOK SYRIA’S TOUGHEST TERRITORY: THE MIDDLE GROUND INSIDE DAMASCUS: HOW WOULD ASSAD’S FATHER HAVE DONE IT? KERRY WARNS NATO TO PLAN FOR POSSIBLE SYRIAN CHEMICAL ATTACK ‘BASHAR’S SPECIAL FORCES NOW APPEAR CONFIDENT, RUTHLESS, POLITICALLY MOTIVATED, A DANGER TO THEIR ENEMIES’ HAS ASSAD CROSSED ‘RED LINE’? DOUBTS CAST ON EVIDENCE OF USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS SYRIA AND SARIN GAS: US CLAIMS HAVE A VERY FAMILIAR RING THE LESSONS OF LIBYA HAVE SAVED SYRIA FROM THE WEST - FOR NOW ASSAD SENDS HIS FEARED MILITIA SQUADS TO THE BATTLEFRONT AN INTERVENTION THAT MEANS WE ARE ALL INVOLVED NOW ISRAEL ACCUSED OF WAGING WAR ON SYRIA AFTER SECOND AIR STRIKE HISTORY LESSONS THE WEST REFUSES TO LEARN THE DAY I MET THE CANNIBAL COMMANDER’S BRIGADE SYRIA HAS NO REASON TO USE CHEMICAL WEAPONS SYRIAN REBELS TURN ON THEIR POLITICAL LEADERS WAR WITHOUT END IN A LAND AWASH WITH ARMS BRITISH JIHADI ONE OF THREE WESTERNERS KILLED IN BATTLE WITH SYRIAN REGIME JUST WHO HAS THE MOST TO GAIN IF THE KILLING IN SYRIA GOES ON? SYRIA IS UNKNOWN TERRITORY FOR HEZBOLLAH. YOU CAN TELL BY THE CASUALTIES IT IS SUFFERING HEZBOLLAH HELPS TURN TIDE AS ASSAD TAKES KEY TOWN - AND SETS HIS SIGHTS ON ALEPPO WEAPONS ARE NOT JUST GUNS. THEY ARE ABOUT MONEY IRAN WILL SEND 4,000 TROOPS TO AID ASSAD ONLY AN ALL-OUT WAR CAN DEPOSE ASSAD. ANYTHING LESS IS LIKE BEING ‘HALF-PREGNANT’ ASSAD TIGHTENS HIS GRIP ON DAMASCUS TO LEAVE CAMERON’S ‘COUP’ IN TATTERS ‘WE DON’T CARE WHO RULES US, WE JUST WANT TO LIVE’ SYRIA’S LOST TREASURES SYRIA: ONE DEATH AMONG 93,000 THE HOPES OF REBELS LIE IN THE RUINS OF QUSAYR REBEL TOWN THAT FORGED ITS OWN PEACE DEAL ‘THE ATMOSPHERE HERE IS POISONED BY FEAR OF A KIND I HAVE ONLY EVER SEEN ONCE BEFORE’ ‘THERE WAS A SERIES OF DULL THUMPS... A SUICIDE BOMBER HAD BLOWN HIMSELF UP’ FOREIGN MEDIA PORTRAYALS OF THE CONFLICT IN SYRIA ARE DANGEROUSLY INACCURATE ‘THE US HAS NO CONTROL OVER THE REBELS IT IS ARMING - AND IF CAMERON AND HAGUE THINK WEAPONS CAN FORCE ASSAD’S DEPARTURE, THEY ARE STUPID’ WITH THE OPPOSITION NOW AT WAR, THERE’S ONLY ONE WINNER - ASSAD THE SYRIAN WAR HAS KILLED 100,000. BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE STILL ALIVE? SYRIA’S REBELS TURN ON EACH OTHER AFTER FSA LEADER IS KILLED BY TAKING SIDES WITHIN SIDES, RIFKIND RISKS A REPEAT OF THE BALKANS MISTAKES UK TO HELP REBELS WITH DEFENCES ONLY FULL-SCALE WAR CAN UNSEAT ASSAD, SAYS IRAQI MINISTER THE DIY ARMS OF THE FREE SYRIAN ARMY SYRIA OPPOSITION ADVANCES DESPITE LOSING 62 FIGHTERS IN ASSAD AMBUSH VIOLENCE IS ONE THING, BUT WHAT CAUSES REAL TERROR IS THE THREAT OF KIDNAPPING BATTLE FOR SYRIA’S OIL WELLS BUBBLING OVER THE BORDER THE EVIDENCE SEEMS COMPELLING - BUT REMEMBER: THERE’S A PROPAGANDA WAR ON SYRIA CONFLICT: THE DARKEST DAY YET? SYRIA: THE WORLD DEMANDS THE TRUTH WEST TURNS ITS SIGHTS ON ASSAD IN CONDEMNATION OF CHEMICAL MASSACRE DID SYRIA GAS ITS OWN PEOPLE? THE EVIDENCE IS MOUNTING IS THE WEST PREPARED TO CROSS THE RUBICON? PROBABLY A SHORT SHARP SERIES OF AIR STRIKES IS THE WEST’S LIKELY INVOLVEMENT IN THIS VICIOUS CIVIL WAR LEARN FROM MISTAKES OF IRAQ - LET INSPECTORS DO THEIR JOB WE STILL HAVE THE LEVERAGE TO BRING ASSAD AND HIS ENEMIES TOGETHER ‘ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL’: NOW THE US IS FIGHTING ALONGSIDE AL-QA’IDA WEST SHOULD BEWARE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES HOW ACTION RISKS UNSETTLING FRAGILE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE MIDDLE EAST SYRIA IS JUST A SCAPEGOAT. THIS WOULD BE A WAR ABOUT IRAN BRITISH JETS HEAD FOR CYPRUS AS US AND RUSSIA SEND SHIPS TO REGION BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT? EVIDENCE ON CHEMICAL ATROCITY FAILS TO CONVINCE IN SYRIA, IT’S A CASE OF ALL OR NOTHING ONCE WASHINGTON MADE THE MIDDLE EAST TREMBLE - NOW NO ONE THERE TAKES IT SERIOUSLY ACTIVISTS EXPECTED DELAY IN BEGINNING MILITARY ACTION THE GRAVES HAD RUN INTO EACH OTHER, MOUNDS OF RED EARTH WASHED BY THE RAIN, BLOWN BY THE WIND. THERE WAS A FRESH SET UNDAMAGED BY THE ELEMENTS, ONE OF THEM NO MORE THAN FOUR FEET LONG; IT WAS OF HANIA, A THREE-YEAR-OLD GIRL, THE YOUNGEST OF A FAMILY OF FIVE TO DIE... RUSSIA’S PRESIDENT IS UNLIKELY TO LEND HIS SUPPORT TO LATEST US CRUSADE ‘WE DON’T WANT FOREIGNERS TO INTERFERE. WE WILL SETTLE DIFFERENCES OURSELVES’ THE TEETERING BALANCE OF POWER HAS WHOLE REGION ON EDGE VIOLENCE BURSTS IN TO SHATTER CHRISTIANS’ MOUNTAIN REFUGE WOULD OPERATION BIFFING THE ARABS BE THE BEST NAME FOR IT? HOW ASSAD CHOSE HIS KILLING FIELDS PLANNING, NOT RIFLES, IS WHAT REBELS SAY THEY NEED FROM THE FICKLE US WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN HAVE PUT RUSSIA BACK ON THE TOP TABLE CUT! OBAMA’S HOPES FOR A HOLLYWOOD ENDING IN SYRIA WERE ALWAYS GOING TO END IN TRAGEDY SYRIA GAS ATTACKS: THE CLEAR AND CONCISE EVIDENCE IN SYRIA’S CAPITAL, THE KILLING FIELDS REMAIN, AND TRUTH IS AS RARE AS HOPE THE DEATH TOLL CONTINUES TO RISE, WHOEVER IS DOING THE COUNTING THE HUMANITARIAN HEADACHE OF BRINGING HOME SYRIA’S BODIES GAS MISSILES ‘WERE NOT SOLD TO SYRIA’ INTO THE MINOTAUR’S CAVE OF DIPLOMACY: HOW RUSSIA BECAME SYRIA’S DETERRENT ASSAD’S FANFARE IS AN UNWITTING PAEAN TO THE ENEMY AN AUDIENCE WITH THE GRAND MUFTI SYRIAN IMMORALITY TALES: TWO MEN IN THE CONFLICT WHO DIDN’T DESERVE THEIR FATE IN SACRED MAALOULA, WHERE THEY SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF CHRIST, WAR LEADS NEIGHBOURS INTO BETRAYAL THE MAN WITH ASSAD’S EAR SECRET APPROACH TO ASSAD COULD RESHAPE THE WHOLE WAR CURIOUS FACTS COLOUR UN’S REPORT S THE WEST LOOKS AWAY, THE ISLAMISTS CLAIM SYRIA’S REBELLION FOR THEMSELVES ENEMIES MAY UNITE, FACED WITH THE GREATER FOE OF FUNDAMENTALISTS THE ROAD FROM IRAQ TO DAMASCUS WEST SUSPENDS AID FOR ISLAMIST REBELS IN SYRIA BRITAIN’S POLICY ON SYRIA HAS JUST BEEN SUNK, AND NOBODY NOTICED THE BIGGEST EMERGENCY IN THE UN’S HISTORY THE DEATH OF DR KHAN SHOWS HOW ASSAD SHARES POWER WITH RUTHLESS AND ERRATIC HENCHMEN WHY WOULD HE KILL HIMSELF? THE LAST TIME I SPOKE TO ABBAS’S FAMILY HE WAS ALIVE. WHAT WENT WRONG? THE SYRIAN REBELS HAVE TAKEN ICONOCLASM TO NEW DEPTHS, WITH THEIR DESTRUCTION OF SHRINES, STATUES AND EVEN A TREE - BUT TO WHAT END?

2014

THE RISE OF AL-QA'IDA IN SYRIA MAY PUSH THE OTHER REBELS TO SEEK PEACE SYRIA'S THREE-WAY WAR BRITAIN THREATENS TO WITHDRAW SUPPORT FROM SYRIAN REBELS RUSSIA AND US UNITE TO PUSH FOR SYRIA CEASEFIRE A CAMP WITHOUT HOPE FOR A PEOPLE WITHOUT A LAND PEACE POSSIBLE AS POLITICAL LANDSCAPE SHIFTS THE GENEVA TALKS ARE THE ONLY HOPE FOR SYRIA - AND IRAN SHOULD HAVE BEEN PART OF THEM MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR SYRIA - BUT IRAN STILL LEFT IN THE COLD A HORROR SHOW WON'T DECIDE SYRIA'S FUTURE SYRIA: THE WAR OF WORDS BEGINS SYRIA REBELS SAY RUSSIA IS PREPARED TO DROP ASSAD SCEPTICISM ON THE STREETS AS AL-QA'IDA POSES AS PEACEMAKER THE LONG ROAD TO PEACE? UN DOWNBEAT ON OPENING OF SYRIAN TALKS SPLITS AMONG REBELS ALLOW RARE LULL IN VIOLENCE SYRIANS RETURN TO THEIR BADLY DAMAGED HOMES AS CEASEFIRE MAKES STREETS SAFE AGAIN HOMS BREAKTHROUGH IN GENEVA CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE OF THE SIEGE OF ADRA WAR WOUNDED WHO FACE A STRUGGLE TO FIND PEACE 'PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TRAPPED FOR 185 DAYS - THEY ARE EATING WEEDS' 'DESTROYED IN A SECOND': ENTIRE NEIGHBOURHOODS DEMOLISHED BY SYRIAN ARMY GRAVEDIGGERS STAY BUSY IN SYRIA AS PEACE TALKS END IN FAILURE STALEMATE ON SYRIA'S FRONTLINES, BUT THE HATRED AND HORROR STORIES GROW BY THE DAY THE REBEL STRONGHOLD IN THE SKIES ASSAD AND THE REBELS MAY BE DEADLOCKED BUT THEIR BACKERS AREN'T THE BATTLE FOR HOMS AN END TO TERROR FOR CHOSEN FEW IS EARLY SIGN OF SYRIAN PEACE AN ORDINARY FAMILY, A TERRIBLE WAR DESTRUCTION OF THE IDOLS FEARS GROW FOR MEN MISSING AFTER HOMS EVACUATION ENEMIES CROSS THE FRONT LINES IN DAMASCUS. BUT WILL THE TRUCE HOLD? LOCAL TRUCES ASIDE, THE INGREDIENTS FOR A LONG SYRIAN WAR ARE ALL STILL IN PLACE SYRIA’S ROAD TO HELL AN UNHAPPY ANNIVERSARY: WHY THE END OF ASSAD IS AS FAR AWAY AS EVER ON THE MARCH WITH ASSAD'S ARMY FAITH, HOPE AND £40M CHARITY? RELEASE OF THE KIDNAPPED NUNS IS STARTING TO COST SYRIA'S REGIME SYRIA'S SECULAR UPRISING HAS BEEN HIJACKED BY JIHADISTS AN ASSAD GENERAL'S SYRIAN CHARM OFFENSIVE THE KILLING OF A SOLDIER AND HIS SON SHOWS THE LIMITS OF RECONCILIATION ASSAD IS ALREADY COUNTING ON SOLDIERS STILL AT SCHOOL TO FILL THE GAPS LEFT BY 30,000 CASUALTIES FOREIGN JIHADIS IN SYRIA PLEDGE THEIR OWN 9/11 THE BARREL BOMB AND THE BALLOT BOX: HOW ASSAD HELD ON TO POWER IN SYRIA HARDLY A BREATH OF WIND: THE SILENCE THAT EMPHASISES A CITY'S FATE DEATH ZONE: THE SYRIAN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE TURNED INTO A SUICIDE FORTRESS BY AL-QA'IDA ISIS MAKES ITS MOVE THE SYRIAN 'MODERATES' WHO AREN'T SO MODERATE IN IRAQ ISIS MARCHES FURTHER INTO SYRIA AIR STRIKES? TALK OF GOD? OBAMA IS FOLLOWING THE JIHADISTS’ SCRIPT WEST POISED TO JOIN FORCES WITH ASSAD

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