Syria

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 ...

March 16, 2021

Predictable messaging in BBC’s Syrian civil war feature

On March 12th a feature article titled “Why has the Syrian war lasted 10 years?” appeared on the...

March 8, 2021

Guardian makes unsourced claim that Israel urged US to attack Syria

A Guardian piece by their veteran journalist Simon Tisdall (“Ten grim lessons the world has le...

March 5, 2021

Weekend long read

1) At the Fathom journal, David Hirsh explains ‘The Meaning of David Miller’. “According to Br...

March 1, 2021

BBC’s ‘disinfo’ article fails to explain why it amplified that propaganda

Visitors to the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page on February 27th found an item promoted ...

February 24, 2021

Gaps in BBC News prisoner exchange report

Late on February 18th (UK time) the BBC News website published a short report headlined “Prisoner ...

February 12, 2021

Weekend long read

1) At the INSS Pnina Sharvit Baruch discusses the recent ICC ruling. “On February 5, 2021, the Int...

January 24, 2021

UK outlets parrot Syrian gov’t propaganda that IDF ‘killed family of four’

A Jan. 23rd article in The Scotsman on reports of a recent Israeli air attack on Syrian military tar...

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 &#...

December 29, 2020

Superficial BBC report on Hizballah drug trafficking

Back in July the BBC News website published a report headlined ‘Captagon: Italy seizes €1bn of a...