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Deal reached to surrender last rebel-held town in Eastern Ghouta

Jaish al-Islam, the last remaining rebel group in Eastern Ghouta, has agreed to leave its holdout in Douma for an opposition-held area in northern Syria, according to opposition negotiators and the Russian foreign ministry. The deal came a day after a chemical attack killed scores of people and affected hundreds of other Douma residents. The attack prompted global outrage but was dismissed as "fabrication" by the Syrian government, whose forces […]

today9 April 2018

International News

Syria forces launch assault on rebel-held Douma

Pro-government forces in Syria have launched a ground offensive under the cover of air raids on Douma, the last rebel-held town in Eastern Ghouta. The push on Friday signalled the collapse of a 10-day ceasefire over a potential deal to evacuate opposition fighters from the besieged enclave on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus. According to the Syrian Civil Defence, a group of rescuers operating in opposition-held areas in Syria, […]

today7 April 2018

International News

Syria forces close to gaining full control of Eastern Ghouta

Syrian government forces are close to taking full control of Eastern Ghouta, the last rebel-held area near the capital, Damascus. Two out of three rebel groups that had been controlling the enclave have already surrendered, with thousands of fighters and their relatives departing for opposition-held areas in the north of the country. The third rebel group, Jaish al-Islam, which controls the city of Douma, has so far refused to give […]

today25 March 2018

International News

Russian strikes kill 37 civilians as evacuations continue from Syria’s Ghouta

Russian air strikes killed 37 civilians in the Arbin area of the shrinking rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. "Russian air strikes and incendiary weapons killed the civilians in a basement from burning or suffocation" late on Thursday before a ceasefire came into effect in the area, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said. Russia has denied being directly involved […]

today23 March 2018

International News

Syrian civilians flee embattled Eastern Ghouta and Afrin

Civilians continue to flee Syria's Eastern Ghouta and Afrin in record numbers as Syrian and Turkish military operations continue against their respective foes. Roughly 50,000 people have fled the two areas - 20,000 from Eastern Ghouta, a Damascus suburb, and 30,000 from Afrin, in Syria's Kurdish-dominated northeast - according to some counts. Eastern Ghouta has been at the centre of fighting between rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's Russian-backed forces in […]

today17 March 2018

International News

Syrian jets hit south in first attacks since truce – Rebels

Syrian jets struck rebel-held towns in the country’s south on Monday, the first aerial attacks on the area since the United States and Russia reached an agreement making it a “de-escalation zone” last year, rebels and residents said. At least eight raids struck the rebel-held towns of Busr al-Harir, Hrak, al-Gharaiya al-Gharbiya and al-Sowara in rural areas in eastern Deraa province in southern Syria, two rebel officials told Reuters. A […]

today13 March 2018

International News

Eastern Ghouta: At least 42 killed amid ongoing offensive

At least 42 people have been killed in Syria's Eastern Ghouta as government forces continue to launch air strikes on the rebel-held enclave while edging closer to its central towns. Activists in Douma, one of the main urban centres, told Al Jazeera on Sunday that Syrian jets have "not stopped bombing towns all over Ghouta". Syrian state television reported the town of Mudeira had been seized on Sunday by the […]

today12 March 2018

International News

Rebels retreat in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta as thousands flee

Thousands of Syrians are fleeing a government-led offensive on the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta enclave near Damascus as President Bashar al-Assad vowed the fight would continue until the "embrace of terrorism" was eradicated. Syrian government forces have seized roughly one-quarter of the territory in recent days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. Backed by Russian air power, the Syrian military has advanced on several fronts, retaking control of […]

today5 March 2018

International News

Eastern Ghouta residents ‘mock’ ceasefire as killing continues

Residents of Syria's Eastern Ghouta are "mocking" a so-called ceasefire in the area, as bombardments by the Syrian government and Russia continue, according to doctors and local activists. At least five civilians were killed on Thursday in attacks on several towns in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta - a suburb of the capital Damascus - activist Abdelmalik Aboud told Al Jazeera from the town of Douma. Fayez Orabi, the spokesperson for the […]

today1 March 2018

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