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Stephen Starr

Former Freelance

Stephen Starr lived in Syria for five years until February 2012 and covered the revolt as a freelance journalist. He is the author of' Revolt in Syria: Eye-Witness to the Uprising'.

Latest articles

Syria’s Assad is playing his old game of offering to ‘help’ the West

Stephen StarrAugust 27, 2014

How Syria’s Assad used chemical weapons to dupe the West again

Stephen StarrOctober 17, 2013

The debate over chemical weapons in Syria gets real

How a Damascus suburb turned into a killing zone

Troops massacre civilians in Damascus suburb

Rebels now better equipped in Syrian conflict, arms tracker says

Syria’s forgotten casualties: The chronically ill

Are we seeing Bashar al-Assad’s second wind?

The West’s dilemma: Who is the official opposition in Syria?

Solutions to the conflict: What do Syrians think?

Live-tracking sexual violence in Syria

Ottawa helps Syria’s refugees, but won’t do anything to end the war

Food aid being sold in Syrian stores, activists say

syrian civil war

Casualty count proves inexact science, rights group finds

Weekend meltdown sends opposition back to square one

Iman mosque bombing: Targeting pro-government clerics in Syria

Did chemical weapons kill people in Syria today?

Two years on, Syria burns while the world fiddles

Aleppo activist Edward Dark: ‘People here don't like the regime, but they hate the rebels even more’

Two years later, Syria is a society divided by death