Bashar al-Assad

October 1, 2021

Weekend long read

1) The ITIC reports on the surrender of a senior ISIS figure in the Sinai Peninsula. “Al-Qadi is c...

September 13, 2021

The Guardian’s Simon Tisdall isn’t buying Israeli ‘claims’ about Palestinian terrorism

In March we posted about a completely unsubstantiated claim by veteran Guardian foreign affairs comm...

July 23, 2021

Weekend long read

1) NGO Monitor provides a backgrounder on the NGOs that campaigned to persuade Ben & Jerry’s t...

April 18, 2021

An idea so stupid that only a Guardian columnist can believe it

To paraphrase George Orwell, some arguments are so self-evidently stupid that only Guardian columnis...

March 21, 2021

Reviewing a decade of BBC reporting on Syria

A decade of BBC reporting on the civil war in Syria has produced some memorable moments such as the ...

January 18, 2021

Unverified claims and Assad propaganda in BBC News Syria strikes report

On January 13th a report headlined “Syria war: Suspected Israeli strikes on Iran-linked targets &#...

July 3, 2020

Weekend long read

1) At the INSS Carmit Valensi takes a look at ‘20 Years of the Assad Regime’. ‘“Someone who ...

February 25, 2019

New BBC report on ‘White Helmets’ again amplifies falsehoods

Assad's conspiracy theories recycled in BBC report....

October 19, 2018

Catching up with some recent BBC Middle East reporting

Following up BBC reporting on three topics....

July 25, 2018

BBC News report on Syrian plane interception won’t say where it happened

The BBC's report leaves readers none the wiser where – and therefore why – the incident took pla...