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Kremlin says Russian, French leaders discuss humanitarian aid to Syria
The Kremlin said Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed joint humanitarian efforts in Syria, particular in the eastern Ghouta province, during a ... Middle East -
Eastern Ghouta free of militants, announces Syrian army
Syria’s army command on Saturday announced that the eastern Ghouta region was free of militants, following the departure of the last rebel ... Middle East -
Syrian army command says it has regained most of eastern Ghouta
The Syrian army command said on Saturday it had regained most of the towns and villages in eastern Ghouta and was pressing its military operations in ... Middle East -
Syria rebels prepare to quit penultimate pocket of Ghouta
Syrian rebels and civilians gathered in rubble-strewn streets early on Saturday, awaiting evacuation from the penultimate opposition-held pocket of ... Middle East -
The voice from the hospital basement in eastern Ghouta
Most people in East Ghouta live underground. Medical care is increasingly provided in basements. What is happening there cannot bear the light of ... Features -
Turkey ramps up assault on Kurdish enclave in Syria
Turkey turned up the heat on Syria’s Afrin on Wednesday, as pro-Ankara forces bombarded the Kurdish enclave and closed in on its main city. The ... Middle East -
Red Cross aid convoy enters Syria’s eastern Ghouta
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said 25 aid trucks have entered Syria’s besieged eastern Ghouta on Thursday. ICRC ... Middle East -
Rebel group vows to fight and not leave Syria’s Ghouta
The largest rebel group in the besieged suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus has vowed not to leave the area and to continue fighting advancing ... Middle East -
UNICEF: At least 1,000 children killed across Syria this year
At least 1,000 children have been killed across Syria so far this year, said Christophe Boulierac of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). He ... Middle East -
Greater Damascus: The final touches on the new demographic map
“Ghouta will fall. That is the message. And when it falls, Idlib must surely be next. And then the Syrians must decide how to break the ... Middle East -
Syria regime seizes ‘10 percent' of rebel enclave eastern Ghouta - monitor
Syrian regime forces control "10 percent" of rebel enclave Eastern Ghouta near Damascus following days of ground battles against insurgents, ... Middle East -
UN rights council postpones vote on Syria resolution
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday postponed voting on a British resolution condemning the crisis in Syria’s besieged rebel enclave of ... Middle East -
US calls Russia idea of Syria humanitarian corridors ‘a joke’
Russian proposals for humanitarian corridors to evacuate people from Eastern Ghouta in Syria are a “joke” and people are afraid to use ... Middle East -
UN official: Hundreds killed despite Ghouta ceasefire, aid delivery “collapsed”
Russia and Syria clashed with the US and its Western allies Wednesday over responsibility for the failure of a cease-fire to take hold in Syria as the ... Middle East -
Syrian government ground forces attack Ghouta despite Russian truce plan
Syrian government forces launched a ground assault on the edge of the rebel-held eastern Ghouta enclave on Wednesday, seeking to gain territory ... Middle East -
Air strikes hit Syria’s Ghouta minutes after UN vote on ceasefire
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said warplanes struck eastern Ghouta on Saturday evening, minutes after the UN Security Council adopted a ... Middle East -
UN Security Council unanimously backs Syria ceasefire
With Russia’s backing, the UN Security Council on Saturday unanimously demanded a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to allow for humanitarian aid ... Middle East -
Assad regime parliament member describes people of eastern Ghouta as ‘lice and rats’
Nabil Saleh, a member of the Syrian parliament representing an area in the port city of Latakia, described the people of eastern Ghouta as “lice ... Middle East -
How the civilized caused eastern Ghouta crime
What has happened and is happening in eastern Ghouta in Damascus is a crime against humanity and a “stamp of shame on all of humankind”, ... news -
Families broken by the carnage of Ghouta’s bombs
The air strike hit Syria’s eastern Ghouta on Wednesday, three days into a massive bombardment. Soon afterwards, rescuers pulled four children ... Features -
East Ghouta hospitals running short of life-saving medicines
Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières/MSF) has said that at least 13 hospitals and clinics in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta ... Middle East -
UN: Six Syria enclave hospitals bombed in two days
Six hospitals have been struck over two days in the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta, putting three out of service and killing several people, ... Middle East -
14 dead, 75 injured in latest Assad raids on eastern Ghouta
Around 14 people were killed and over 75 injured in the latest air raids and artillery attacks by the Assad regime on eastern Ghouta, the Syrian ... Middle East -
Saudi Arabia condemns chemical weapon use on Eastern Ghouta by Assad regime
An official source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday said that Saudi Arabia condemns and strongly denounces the attacks on Eastern Ghouta ... Gulf -
Air strikes kill at least 17 civilians in Syria rebel enclave: monitor
Regime and Russian air strikes on a rebel-held enclave near Damascus killed at least 17 civilians on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ... Middle East -
Syrian government push for Damascus rebel enclave kills at least 23
An intensifying push by the Syrian government and allied forces to take the last major rebel stronghold near the capital Damascus killed at least 23 ... Middle East -
Syria’s eastern Ghouta faces ‘complete catastrophe’, says UN
The 400,000 civilians besieged in the Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta face “complete catastrophe” because aid deliveries are blocked, and ... Middle East -
Syria regime strikes kill 7 near Damascus: monitor
Syrian government air strikes on two rebel-held areas near Damascus killed seven people including two children on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for ... Middle East -
Ceasefire in Syrian rebel bastion Eastern Ghouta
A ceasefire has been declared in Syria's Eastern Ghouta, a rebel bastion near Damascus, to run from midnight last Sunday to March 20, Russia's defence ... Middle East -
Syrian army makes gains in Damascus
The Syrian army seized a strategic area in the besieged rebel-held eastern Ghouta area of Damascus Middle East