Dara’a

June 5, 2025

Omissions and errors in BBC News website report on Syria

Early on the morning of June 4th the BBC put out the following social media post: That post took mem...

April 23, 2025

Omissions in BBC Jerusalem bureau journalist’s recent Syria reports

Previously we discussed a BBC News website report by David Gritten and Lucy Williamson which was pub...

April 9, 2025

How did the BBC choose to frame recent events in Syria?

Those who have been following the work of Lucy Williamson since she joined the BBC’s Jerusalem bur...

May 9, 2023

Omissions in BBC report on Arab League reinstatement of Syria

On the evening of May 7th a report headlined “Arab League: Syria reinstated as Assad rehabilitatio...

September 17, 2021

Weekend long read

1) Jonathan Spyer analyses The Surrender of Deraa. “The shifting balance of power in this south w...

October 10, 2019

BBC journalist scoffs at a topic the corporation fails to cover

BBC audiences would be unable to put Barbara Plett Usher's 'analysis' into its appropriate context....

June 29, 2018

BBC News website map misleads on UNDOF

A BBC map fails to reflect UNDOF's 2014 relocated to the Israeli side of the Golan DMZ. ...

July 10, 2017

Superficial BBC News reporting on southern Syria ceasefire

Two BBC reports on the ceasefire in south-west Syria fail to provide audiences with the full picture...