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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 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...

November 26, 2024

Context lacking in BBC report about strikes in Syria

Given the BBC’s long documented habit of basing news reports on unverified claims made by a news a...

September 13, 2024

BBC coverage of Syria strikes fails to adequately inform

On the morning of September 9th the BBC News website published a report based on claims appearing in...

February 21, 2023

BBC again bases report on Syria strike on regime claims

On the morning of February 19th the BBC News website published a report by Phelan Chatterjee titled ...

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 &#...