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Syria

Right-wing media watch: The Sun places fear over facts once again, in painful-to-read anti-migrant slur

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
15 June, 2025

What’s missing is any semblance of balance, compassion, or fact-based context.

Sharaa
Opinion

Syria: What should the UK do now?

Eve McQuillan
11 February, 2025

If politicians want to see a stable and secure Syria, they should use the UK’s levers and influence to give Syrians the best chance of building it.

Migrants from Syria

Tim Farron: The Tories are breaking their promises to protect child refugees

Tim Farron
14 June, 2018

Britain has a proud history of taking in those fleeing war and persecution. But we are falling behind on our responsibilities.

Gaza shows how UK strikes on Syria won’t defend innocent lives

Keith Taylor
19 April, 2018

Past interventions in Yemen and Palestine have taught us that the Syrian strike is unlikely to be about (nor successful in) protecting defenceless civilians.

Corbyn’s foreign policy views are regressive – and the Left need to wake up to it

Rabbil Sikdar
20 February, 2018

The Labour leader’s views centre around dogmatic anti-imperialism, blinding him again and again to the crimes of regimes opposed to America.

refugees

We shouldn’t praise the Tories for resettling 8,000 Syrian refugees

Charlotte England
9 November, 2017

Not only is this far too few, it is also a distraction from the numerous other ways in which the Government is letting refugees down.

Two years on from Alan Kurdi, we are still failing child refugees

Diane Abbott
8 September, 2017

The government must implement the Dubs Amendment and meet our international obligations, writes Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott.

After Manchester, we must accept that reckless foreign interventions make Britain less secure

Molly Scott Cato
31 May, 2017

Western governments must act more responsibly abroad

David Miliband calls on US to dump Trump’s ‘cruel’ freeze on Syrian refugees

Adam Barnett
16 March, 2017

Former Labour Foreign Secretary slams ‘propaganda gift for extremism’

Six years on from Syria’s revolution, solidarity is needed more than ever

Syria Solidarity UK
15 March, 2017

Let this be the year the international community takes a stand

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