An Iranian war veteran fell into a coma in a Tehran hospital last week after suffering respiratory failure, his lungs ravaged by mustard gas during the  Iran -Iraq war 30 years ago. Hadi Kazemnejad is one of up to 1,000,000 Iranians who were exposed to chemical weapons by Saddam...

  There is something deeply cynical about this chemical weapons ‘timetable’ Even if it succeeds, Syrians will be left to kill each other as before - only without sarin. What on earth was going on in Washington and Geneva last week? I’m not trying to cheapen the...

  Activists of the embattaled city of homs say U.N reports have confirmed 8 massacres only in Syria whilst the massacres of the revolution capital are forgotten. After 30 months of killing, massacres, bombarding and shelling it is hard to find any area or neiborhood in Homs...

  Reporting from the Syrian city of Homs, FRANCE 24 finds the abandoned Sunni district of Baba Amr in ruins, while life is limping back to normal in the loyalist neighbourhood of Zahra under the careful watch of Syrian troops.   Standing on a street that has been...