Raygun-inspired musical cancelled after legal complaints
Harry Langer/DeFodi Images via Getty Images ‘Raygun: The Musical’, was to be a parody about Rachael Gunn’s journey to the Olympics Australian breaker Rachael Gunn’s legal team has stopped a…
‘First time I’ve come to Syria without fear of arrest’
A Syrian herself, BBC Middle East correspondent Lina Sinjab says this is the first time she has crossed into the country “without fear of detention, without fear of arrest”. Earlier,…
HTS leader not only player in Syria’s fast-changing future
EPA “They arrived here worried about the Islamists,” is how one source described the mood of Arab foreign ministers who flew into Doha on Saturday evening for urgent talks aimed…
BBC sees looting at Bashar al-Assad’s residence
BBC Middle East correspondent Lina Sinjab witnessed people looting a residence belonging to Bashar al-Assad, in chaotic scenes after he fled the country. “I’ve never been into this street… I…
43,000 dead, Volodymyr Zelensky says in rare update
Some 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia’s invasion began, Volodymyr Zelensky has said in a rare admission of the extent of the nation’s casualties. In a post on…
BBC in Umayyad Square amid deafening gunfire
Rebel fighters and members of the public have gathered in the Syrian capital Damascus to celebrate the end of President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. The BBC’s Lina Sinjab was drowned out…
Video shows Syria presidential palace stormed
Syrians enter the presidential palace in the capital Damascus after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. Objects and furniture were seen strewn across the empty rooms. Russia has confirmed President Assad…
The final hours of the Assad regime
After years in power, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad was toppled with surprising speed. On Saturday afternoon, it became clear rebels who had already taken Aleppo and Hama were closing in…
John Mahama wins as Mahamudu Bawumia accepts defeat
AFP Ghana’s Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has accepted defeat in Saturday’s election and congratulated former President John Mahama on his victory. “The people have voted for change,” said Bawumia. The elections…
Sounds of gunfire and military kit abandoned
The BBC’s Barbara Plett-Usher says she has heard gunfire and explosions but it is “relatively calm” in Damascus, after rebels took control of the Syrian capital. President Assad is said…