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by Hasan Mohamed with Rim Haddad in Damascus Agence France-Presse DOUMA, Syria – An international convoy cut short its mission to Syria’s rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Monday after delivering desperately needed aid as the regime pounded the region, killing dozens as it seized more ground. At least 68 civilians were killed Monday, a monitor said, while the United Nations reported dozens of trucks carrying aid had reached the main town of Douma. The government removed medical […]
by Hasan Mohamed with Rim Haddad in Damascus Agence France Presse DOUMA, Syria (AFP) — A UN convoy entered Syria’s Eastern Ghouta on Monday to deliver much-needed aid as regime forces seized more ground in a fierce offensive to retake the battered rebel enclave. The United Nations said 46 trucks had entered Eastern Ghouta and were headed for the main town of Douma, in the first aid delivery since the start of the regime […]
by Hasan Mohammed © Agence France-Presse DOUMA, Syria (AFP) — Government forces seized territory inside Syria’s rebel Eastern Ghouta Saturday, intensifying fighting as tens of thousands of civilians in the besieged enclave near Damascus awaited urgently needed aid. On another front in Syria’s seven-year civil war, Turkish air strikes killed 36 pro-regime fighters in a Kurdish enclave near the Turkish border. Syria’s war has killed more than 340,000 people and spiralled into a complex conflict involving […]
by Rim Haddad Agence France Presse WAFIDEEN CHECKPOINT, Syria (AFP) — Civilians in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta shunned Russia’s offer to quit the besieged enclave for a second day Wednesday, as rebels and Moscow blamed each other for the humanitarian deadlock. The bombardment that killed 600 civilians in 10 days has quietened since the Kremlin ordered a daily “humanitarian pause”, but not one of the battered region’s 400,000 residents left to board buses provided by the […]
by Hasan Mohamed © Agence France-Presse DOUMA, Syria (AFP) — A “humanitarian pause” announced by Russia in Syria’s deadly bombardment of Eastern Ghouta failed to end violence Tuesday, with fresh bloodshed and no sign of aid deliveries or residents leaving the besieged enclave. Nine days after Russian-backed regime forces intensified their campaign against the rebel-held enclave, the deal offered some respite to civilians who had been hiding in their basements. But the first day of a five-hour […]
by Hasan Mohamed Agence France Presse DOUMA, Syria (AFP) — 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 late Monday after hours of deadly raids. A UN Security Council resolution for a 30-day truce had remained a dead letter since it was passed on Saturday, and Moscow, the Damascus regime’s main backer, ended up setting its own terms to […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — A child died and at least 13 other people suffered breathing difficulties after a suspected chemical attack on a besieged Syrian rebel enclave Sunday, a medic and a monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 14 civilians had suffered breathing difficulties after a regime warplane struck the village of Al-Shifuniyah in the Eastern Ghouta region. One child died and a woman was in a critical condition, said Rami […]
Hundreds of children were among the injured and dead in the ongoing air strikes on the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta in Syria where the civilian death toll from seven days of bombing rose to more than 500. With support from Russia, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on the ceasefire to allow for humanitarian aid deliveries and medical evacuations, but the measure did not specify when the truce would go […]
by Carole LANDRY / with Hasan Mohamed in Douma, Syria Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The UN Security Council on Saturday unanimously demanded a 30-day ceasefire in Syria, as new air strikes on the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta took the civilian death toll from seven days of bombing to more than 500. With support from Russia, the Security Council adopted a resolution on the ceasefire to allow for humanitarian […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Air strikes and artillery fire on the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta have killed 500 civilians in seven days, 121 of them children, a monitor said on Saturday. Deadly new strikes hit the enclave as the UN Security Council prepared to vote on a ceasefire resolution, while more bodies were recovered from the rubble from previous raids, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Few of Eastern Ghouta’s nearly […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — The employers of a Filipina maid found dead in a freezer in Kuwait were both arrested in the Syrian capital Damascus, a Lebanese judicial official said on Saturday. Syrian authorities surrendered Nader Essam Assaf to Beirut on Friday because of his Lebanese citizenship but his Syrian wife Mona remains in custody in Damascus, the official said. The murder of Joanna Demafelis sparked outrage in the Philippines and prompted President Rodrigo […]
