Tag: Eastern Ghouta

Russian airstrikes in Eastern Ghouta kill at least 31: monitor

DOUMA: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday the death toll from Russian air strikes on the village of Kafr Batna in...

COMSATS students raise voice in solidarity with distressed Syrians

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) took the lead to arrange a first-ever peaceful protest walk to express solidarity with Syrian children being brutally...

Strikes hit Syria’s battered Ghouta as death toll hits 800

DOUMA, EASTERN GHOUTA: Heavy air strikes and clashes shook the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta ahead of an urgent UN Security Council meeting...

Helped evacuate 13 civilians from Eastern Ghouta, says Russia

MOSCOW: The Russian military has announced that it has aided in the evacuation of 13 civilians from Eastern Ghouta on Tuesday. The civilians were...

Russia offers rebels safe passage out of eastern Ghouta

MOSCOW: The Russian military has offered Syrian rebels safe passage out of eastern Ghouta, setting out a proposal to let the opposition surrender its...

Aid reaches Ghouta but retreats after shelling; Syria presses assault

BEIRUT: Aid trucks reached Syria’s eastern Ghouta region on Monday for the first time since the start of one of the war’s deadliest assaults,...

French President Macron reaches out to resolve Ghouta crisis

PARIS: The French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday to discuss the conflict in Syria at large and the Ghouta region in...

Syrian govt removes medical equipment from Ghouta aid convoy: WHO

GENEVA: Syrian government officials removed trauma kits and surgical supplies from trucks that are part of an inter-agency convoy heading into the besieged Syrian...

Ghouta operation to go on, says Assad

DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Sunday his forces must push on with their campaign to retake the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta from...

White House accuses Russia of killing civilians in Syria

WASHINGTON: The United States on Sunday made its strongest accusation to date of Moscow’s complicity in civilian deaths in Syria, saying Russian aircraft flew...

Syrian rescuers struggle after routine airstrikes and bombings

Saeed Al-Masri is one of the volunteers with the White Helmets, a group that conducts search and rescue operations in the rubble after the...

Syrian government forces gain ground in Ghouta: report

BEIRUT: Syrian government forces and allied militias gained ground on Wednesday in clashes with rebels in eastern Ghouta near Damascus as fighting raged despite...

Daily ‘humanitarian pause’ in Eastern Ghouta, orders Putin

DOUMA: Russia called a daily “humanitarian pause” in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, bowing to pressure to halt the carnage in the rebel-held enclave where bombardments eased...

Syrian forces launch fresh assault barely hours after 30-day ceasefire was...

DAMASCUS:  Syrian government forces launched a fresh ground and air assault against the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, hours after the resolution was approved unanimously, The...

Turkey calls on ‘world to say stop to Eastern Ghouta massacre’

ANKARA: Turkey called on the international community to end the “massacre” in the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta hit by intense regime bombardment...

416 dead in Ghouta airstrikes in Syria, UN considers ceasefire resolution

AMMAN: Warplanes pounded the last rebel enclave near Syria’s capital for a fifth day running on Thursday as the UN Security Council considered demanding...

France says Turkey, Iran violating international law in Syria

PARIS: France’s foreign minister on Wednesday demanded that all Iranian-backed militia, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah, leave Syria and said that Turkey and Iran were violating the...