Blog posts tagged "Syria"

March 15, 2012 4:55 pm 1 Comment

The visit of the UN envoy Kofi Annan to Damascus this week underscored international concern about the horror being visited on civilians, but no-one, it seems, has an easy way of resolving the deeper issues.

March 12, 2012 4:46 pm 2 Comments

The Israel-Palestinian conflict has been simmering as usual while the world has been distracted by last year’s Arab Spring and its repercussions. But the changes in the region affect Israel and the Palestinians too

March 2, 2012 12:59 pm 3 Comments

As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin calls for reconciliation in Syria, Lindsey Hilsum wonders if he is really moved by the suffering of the citizens of Homs?

February 24, 2012 3:39 pm 10 Comments

There’s a lot of fuss at the moment about female war correspondents as if we were some kind of recently discovered species. Yet we’ve been around a while. Lyse Doucet of the BBC and I call those of our vintage the “Old Trouts Club”. Most of us are in our 40s and 50s, although Dame Ann Leslie is certainly a member and she’s more than 70.

February 22, 2012 4:17 pm 39 Comments

Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum on the loss of her friend, veteran war reporter, Marie Colvin.

February 20, 2012 9:23 pm No Comments

The latest report from Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman in Syria.

February 10, 2012 3:48 pm 2 Comments

Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs on China's veto of the UN Security Council resolution on Syria

11:06 am 2 Comments

When the UN Secretary General describes what is already a desperate situation in Syria as "a grim harbinger of worse to come", you know things are bad.

February 6, 2012 6:59 pm 3 Comments

Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs on the options for dealing with the violence in Syria

February 1, 2012 6:08 pm No Comments

A band of brand new, out-of-nowhere, self-styled TV news reporters has sprung up in besieged Syrian cities. Their sudden emergence is a startling new phenomenon of the 11-month-long Syrian revolt. It is nothing short of a media revolution.