Syria: should the West intervene?

The Syrian uprising is now in its 11th month. What are the options to bring about an end to the bloodshed? Emily Hohler reports.

The Arabs are paying a high price for their spring', says Seumas Milne in The Guardian. After the "carnage" in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain and Libya, Syria's 11-month-old uprising is growing ever bloodier with hundreds killed in the past few days after heavy shelling in the city of Homs.

No leader can kill 6,000 of his people in under a year and expect to stay in power, says Alex Spillius in The Daily Telegraph, but no one can "quite agree" on how to hasten the end of President Bashar al-Assad.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.