Thursday, July 12, 2012

What next for Syria? Live Q&A with Martin Chulov

Martin Chulov has reported for the Guardian from Syria's civil war. Put your questions to him on the conflict, the region and the challenges of covering it

Martin Chulov
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 July 2012

"Seventeen months after the Syrian uprising began, the country is in the depths of a sectarian civil war.

Large areas of the country are beyond the control of Bashar al-Assad's security forces. Gulf states, backed by the US, are supplying weapons to the opposition and some jihadi fighters are thought to be moving in from the east.

Martin Chulov has been inside Syria many times while covering the crisis for the Guardian. For his latest dispatch he visited northern Syria and found a wasteland where there is no government, little money and the cost of fuel is so prohibitive that people have returned to cooking with firewood......"

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