Hints and tips:
...A fine cast sharply delineate the characters — particularly Nicholas Woodeson’s beady Duke of Norfolk — but we can’t spend much time with any of them....
...This is “the worst bread crisis . . . since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011”, said Nicholas Bodanac, a research director at Mercy Corps, a humanitarian organisation....
...“We want to preserve the material that would be in the best condition to be admitted in court proceedings one day,” says Nicholas Koumjian over video call....
...The Sandpit is marketed as a literary thriller, but Nicholas Shakespeare, and his publishers, need a better handle on the thriller side of things....
...With the opposition defeated, and western influence at a low ebb, the incentive for Mr Assad to engage in UN talks is lower than ever....
...It could also involve targeting chemical weapons factories and Assad family financial holdings, or attempting a decapitation strike against Mr Assad himself....
...Mr Assad said Khan Sheikhoun, in northern Syria, is controlled by “a branch of al-Qaeda, so the only information the world has had til this moment is published by al-Qaeda”....
...President Assad, along with the rest of us, would be deluded to be hoping otherwise....
...President Bashar al-Assad’s repeated chemical weapons attacks against his civilian population called for a forceful international response....
...Letter in response to this editorial: It suits Putin that the war in Syria should continue / From Nicholas Goulder, Saffron Walden, Essex, UK...
...This is why Mr Obama’s defence of his decision to pull back from striking Syrian military targets in 2013, after having drawn a “red line” against Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons, is so troubling...
...Sir, Nicholas Burns, the former US undersecretary of state, criticises Barack Obama for not “striking Syrian military targets in 2013 after having drawn a ‘red line’ against Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical...
...In August 2013, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition lost a botched vote to authorise military action in Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad — a move that has been lamented by many in...
...MPs rejected proposals for UK military action in Syria in 2013, although on that occasion the proposal was to join the US in bombing President Bashar al-Assad rather than his Islamist opponents....
...It acts as kingmaker in Syria, as the Assad government’s strongest military supporter. Its influence reaches into Lebanon via Hizbollah, and Gaza through Hamas....
...In Syria, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Command is the Assad government’s most effective partner. Iran is the key ally of radical Houthi rebels who have instigated a civil war in Yemen....
...“The big challenge is to convince Sunni states in the Middle East to give political and military support to the coalition,” Nicholas Burns, former senior official at the state department, said....
...The beheading of US citizen Nicholas Berg in 2004 by Mr Zarqawi himself propelled AQI to the forefront of the war on terror and marked the beginning of a new, particularly bloody phase in the Iraqi extremist...
...General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the chief of defence staff, said in early November that British troops would step up operations in the world’s terrorist heartlands after their withdrawal from Afghanistan...
...The deal for the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons saw Washington concede that Mr Assad would hold on to power....
...Later I drive down to Famagusta, where the cathedral of St Nicholas – repurposed as the Lala Mustafa Pasha mosque since the Ottoman conquest in 1571 – is the centrepiece of the medieval city....
...Cyprus has been suspected of allowing itself to be used as a transit point for Russian arms shipments to the Assad regime....
...The Assads have been cursed by familial rivalries....
...In the hotel lobby I was amazed to meet Nicholas Tomalin, idol of my generation of journalists and a close friend. “What the hell are you doing here, Nick?” I demanded....
...Nicholas Sarkozy, the French president, travelled to Damascus in September, opening the door to rehabilitation. This week Walid al-Muallem, the Syrian foreign minister, is in London....
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