Bashar al-Assad

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...

July 24, 2018

BBC News website readers get yet another dose of Assad’s propaganda

30% of the BBC's second 'White Helmets' article in two days is devoted to promotion of Assad's propa...

July 22, 2018

BBC promotes what it described in April as ‘conspiracy theories’

Three months ago BBC Trending reported on conspiracy theories surrounding the 'White Helmets'. Now B...