5/5/2013: NEWS: Syrian aid in crisis as Gulf states renege on promises
Millions of Syrian refugees face food rationing and cutbacks to critical medical programmes because oil- rich Gulf states have failed to deliver the funding they promised for emergency humanitarian aid, an investigation by The Independent on Sunday has...
5/5/2013: NEWS: Hundreds flee after pro- Assad forces’ massacre
Hundreds of Sunni Muslims fled Syria’s coastal town of Banias yesterday, after reports circulated that fighters loyal to President Bashar al- Assad killed dozens of people overnight. Activists claimed the killings took place two days after state forces...
Lisa Markwell, most recently Executive Editor of The Independent and i, and formerly editor of The IoS’s New Review magazine, has been appointed Executive Editor of The Independent on Sunday, in succession to John Mullin. Lisa said last night: “I am...