Seven million Syrians have been displaced and more than 100,000 killed in the ongoing civil war, nearly one third of the country’s population, with the international community still divided on how to reduce the bloodshed.
The UK Parliament have voted against taking military intervention in Syria, with the House voting 285 to 272 to defeat the prime minister’s bill.
The UK is to propose a UN Security Council resolution today which would authorise “necessary measures to protect civilians” in Syria.
The West has been united in its condemnation of the chemical weapons attack in Ghouta, laying the blame squarely on Assad’s forces, but Russia has downplayed the importance of the attack and the need for international military intervention in the ongoing civil war.
Are British authorities still trying to censor the publication of documents which should have been declassified on MI6’s involvement with the CIA in the 1953 Iran Coup?