Syria Throws Out the BBC

BBC journalists will no longer be able to legally work in Syria after the country’s authorities revoked their accreditation, RT reports today. In a statement yesterday, Syria’s Ministry of Information alleged that the BBC, despite repeated warnings from Damascus authorities, “has deliberately provided, from time to time, subjective and false information.” Some BBC reports, they assert, are based on “statements and testimonies from terrorist and anti-Syrian parties.” The statement concluded that the BBC had failed to uphold “professional standards,” insisting, instead, on “providing politicized and misleading reports.”