This summer we are very excited to be heading to Wilderness Festival for a second year.

Senior foreign correspondent for The Times, Anthony Loyd, has reported on the conflict in Syria since its outset nearly four and a half years ago.

He has witnessed the atrocities committed by Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the brutal rise of the self-styled Islamic State and the desperate struggle of the Syrian people caught between the two.

Having recently returned from the country, he will be giving an on-the-ground account of how the conflict has developed and the situation today. He will be talking about the immense dangers involved in covering this war and his own attempted kidnapping.

Anthony Loyd is senior foreign correspondent for The Times. His career began in 1993 when he started reporting from the war in Bosnia. Since then he has written from innumerable conflict zones, including Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Chechnya and Kosovo. He is author of My War Gone By I Miss It So and Another Bloody Love Letter.

This summer the Frontline Club is heading to Wilderness Festival – we hope to see you all there.

Just a few months ago Palestinians might have had reason to be cautiously optimistic as rivals Fatah and Hamas formed a unity government. But when in mid-June three Israeli teenagers were killed and violence between Hamas and Israel began to escalate, any glimmer of hope for progress was soon diminished.

What we have seen since is the horrific consequence of yet another escalation in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and as always those who pay the dearest price are ordinary people, many of them children.

At Wilderness Festival the Frontline Club will be bringing together a panel of journalists who have covered the conflict, to shed light on what has been happening on the ground. They will be discussing how this latest escalation is different from those we have seen in the past and the perils of reporting this age-old conflict.

Chaired by Lindsey Hilsum, international editor at Channel 4 News.

Speakers:

Kim Sengupta, defence and diplomatic correspondent at The Independent.

Anna-Lisa Fuglesang, news editor at Channel 4 News.

Chris Morris, Europe Correspondent for BBC News.