Stephen Starr - The Globe and Mail

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

August 27, 2014 Updated

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

October 17, 2013 Updated

The debate over chemical weapons in Syria gets real

April 29, 2013 Updated

How a Damascus suburb turned into a killing zone

April 23, 2013 Updated

Troops massacre civilians in Damascus suburb

April 21, 2013 Updated

Rebels now better equipped in Syrian conflict, arms tracker says

April 18, 2013 Updated

Syria’s forgotten casualties: The chronically ill

April 18, 2013 Updated

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

April 15, 2013 Updated

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

April 10, 2013 Updated

Solutions to the conflict: What do Syrians think?

April 8, 2013 Updated

Live-tracking sexual violence in Syria

April 3, 2013 Updated

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

April 1, 2013 Updated

Food aid being sold in Syrian stores, activists say

March 28, 2013 Updated

syrian civil war

Casualty count proves inexact science, rights group finds

March 27, 2013 Updated

Weekend meltdown sends opposition back to square one

March 25, 2013 Updated

Iman mosque bombing: Targeting pro-government clerics in Syria

March 21, 2013 Updated

Did chemical weapons kill people in Syria today?

March 19, 2013 Updated

Two years on, Syria burns while the world fiddles

March 18, 2013 Updated

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

March 15, 2013 Updated

Two years later, Syria is a society divided by death

March 14, 2013 Updated

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