Michael Jansen

Michael Jansen

Middle East Correspondent

Michael Jansen is Middle East correspondent for the Irish Times.

Demonstrators carry a poster depicting a caricature of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Lebanon’s Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during a protest in Kafranbel, near Idlib, yesterday. Photograph: Raed al-Fares/Reuters
Syrian regime agrees to take part in peace talks

Damascus names envoys to attend Russian-US sponsored conference

Former leader of the Syrian National Coalition Moaz al-Khatib. Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters
Peace plan for Syria includes call for Assad to step down and exit country

Former Syrian opposition leader Moaz al-Khatib has put forward a 16-point plan ahead of a three-day meeting in Istanbul

A Lebanese army soldier walks on a patrol after being in the northern port city of Tripoli. Photograph: Omar Ibrahim/Reuters
Troops push into strategic rebel-held Syrian town

At least 10 killed since Sunday in battle for Qusayr near Lebanese border

Fighters from Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra on the front line during a clash with Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. Photograph: Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters Files (SYRIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS
Rebel leader in hiding after disputed merger

Syrian group Jabhat al-Nusra being subsumed by Islamic State in Iraq and Levant

A Free Syrian Army fighter sits on sandbags in the refugee camp of Yarmouk, near Damascus. Photograph: Reuters
Palestinians in Syria caught in the middle

Refugees in Yarmouk claim they are being attacked by the Free Syrian Army

People run down a street in the city of Deir al-Zor, in eastern Syria, Photograph: Reuters/Khalil Ashawi
Syrian army seizes rebel stronghold

Assad’s forces take Qusayr, a strategic town on smuggling route used by rebels

An employee counts Syrian pound notes at the Syrian central bank in Damascus. The Syrian pound has lost about 60 per cent of its value against the US dollar in two years. Photograph: Reuters/Khaled al-Hariri
Trading continues in Syria despite conflict

Economy has shrunk by an estimated 35-40 per cent

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his sniper rifle from a house in Aleppo on August 14th, 2012. Photograph: Reuters
Troops repulse rebel attack on Aleppo prison

Facility said to hold 4,000 prisoners, including 250 insurgents

A Syrian woman and her son in an alley in the Old City of Damascus, where an area covering 12 blocks was declared a peace zone in which no fighting was permitted: Photograph: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images
Damascus ‘peace zone’ at centre of attempts to rebuild Syria’s tolerant civil society

Forum for National Harmony works with all sides to resolve conflict

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