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Evacuations completed from Syria enclave

Douma - Muslimchronicle

Aid workers completed a series of medical evacuations from a besieged rebel enclave near Damascus Friday as part of a controversial deal that saw patients swapped for hostages and prisoners. The patients were among a list of cases considered critical who were evacuated since Tuesday night from Eastern Ghouta, an area where the humanitarian crisis has escalated in recent months."Thirteen civilians,Read more

Medical evacuations begin from besieged

Douma - Muslimchronicle

Aid workers have evacuated the first few ill patients from Syrian rebel bastion Eastern Ghouta under a deal struck after the UN said hundreds are in critical condition following a four-year government seige. Three children and a man were loaded overnight into ambulances bound for hospitals in Damascus before being transported out past government lines that have held the region's estimated 400,000Read more

Besieged Syrians eating trash, fainting from hunger

Saqba - Muslimchronicle

Syrians in the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta are so short of food that they are eating trash, fainting from hunger and forcing their children to eat on alternate days, the U.N. World Food Programme said in a report on Wednesday. Since September, approximately 174,500 people in the town of Douma in the besieged zone have been forced to adoptRead more

Syria 'de-escalation zone' sees civilians buried

Douma - Muslimchronicle

Entire families have been buried under the rubble in a rebel-held enclave near Syria's capital, as government forces pursue a nearly week-long campaign against the area despite a de-escalation deal. The violence aims to further weaken rebels in their last stronghold near Damascus, analysts said, as Russia, Iran and Turkey launch a diplomatic dash to resolve Syria's grinding six-year conflict.Read more

Aid enters devastated rebel town near Syria capital

Beirut - Muslimchronicle

Desperately needed humanitarian assistance entered a besieged rebel-held town near Syria's capital on Sunday, the Red Cross said, in the first aid deliveries there in nearly three months. The International Committee of the Red Cross said a joint operation with the United Nations had brought in 24 trucks full of humanitarian relief to Douma. ICRC spokeswoman Ingy Sedky told AFPRead more

Russia opposes US draft of UN resolution on Syria chemical probe extension

Douma - Muslimchronicle

Russia opposes a draft UN resolution to extend the mandate of an international inquiry into chemical weapons attacks in Syria, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday. Ryabkov’s comments came hours after Russia rejected a report by the international inquiry blaming the Syrian government for a deadly toxic gas attack, casting doubt on the UN Security Council’s abilityRead more

Air strikes kill six in Syria 'truce zone'

Douma - Muslimchronicle

Syrian government air strikes killed at least six civilians, including a baby, in a rebel-held town outside the capital Damascus on Thursday, a monitor and local medics said. The strikes hit the town of Douma, which lies in the Eastern Ghouta region, where a "de-escalation zone" deal agreed by regime allies Iran and Russia and rebel backer Turkey has beenRead more

Activists accuse Syrian forces of breaching Eastern Ghouta ceasefire

Damascus - Muslimchronicle

Syrian activists said Sunday that the Syrian government forces carried out several violations to a ceasefire that went into force a day earlier in the Eastern Ghouta region east of the capital Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said airstrikes targeted the towns of Douma and Ayn Tarma area in Eastern Ghouta on Sunday, adding that the Syrian forcesRead more

Opposition forces advance in Daraa and extracting process began

Damascus - Nour Khawam

The clashes between opposition factions and government forces continue in Barza, Al-Hafez Street and Al-Qaboun, east Damascus, where the opposition factions managed to destroy a tank and an armored bulldozer. These areas also witness artillery and missile attacks, especially with elephant rockets and explosive hoses, resulting in wounding some civilians . Damascus countryside witness violent clashes, where the oppositionRead more