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Jordan Times
April 28, 2018
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian army and its allies engaged in a fierce battle on Saturday with Daesh fighters in an enclave south of Damascus held by the extremist group. Reuters witnesses, a war monitor and state television reported intense fighting including artillery bombardment and small arms fire.
Haaretz
April 26, 2018
Syrian state media is reporting that government forces have pushed into a Damascus neighborhood held by the Islamic State group from different directions and captured buildings on several street blocks and tunnels used by the extremists. State news agency SANA said Thursday that dozens of ISISÃâà...
Brownsville Herald
April 23, 2018
The offensive in southern Damascus coincides with preparations by rebels to evacuate towns in the Qalamoun region, east of the capital, following an agreement that allows them to relocate to opposition-held areas in northern Syria. It marks the latest rebel capitulation, after the sprawling eastern GhoutaÃâà...
CBS News
April 18, 2018
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syrian media said international chemical weapons inspectors on Tuesday entered the town of Douma, where an alleged poison gas attack was carried out earlier this month, but a Syrian diplomat said later that only a U.N. security team visited the Damascus suburb. The reported attackÃâà...
Haaretz
April 18, 2018
The Syrian army began preparatory shelling for an assault on the last area outside its control near Damascus on Tuesday, a commander in the pro-government alliance said, building on its recent capture of the major suburb of eastern Ghouta. Recovering the Yarmouk camp and neighbouring areas locatedÃâà...
CNN
April 14, 2018
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports from Northern Syria as the nation awakens after the US announced, along with France and the UK, strikes against targets at three sites in Syria after a week of threats of retaliation for an alleged chemical weapons attack on civilians in Douma. Source: CNNÃâà...
The Sun
April 14, 2018
Explosions have been reported in Damascus, just hours after Donald Trump confirmed he had ordered coalition airstrikes. Pictures show the sky glowing a fiery orange and there were reports of blasts over Mount Qasioun. Pro-Assad officials says around 30 missiles were fired at Syria during the attack, andÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
April 14, 2018
DAMASCUS: Syrian state media slammed Western strikes on Saturday (Apr 14) as illegal and "doomed to fail," after the US, France, and Britain launched a joint operation against the Damascus government. "The aggression is a flagrant violation of international law, a breach of the international community'sÃâà...
CNN
April 14, 2018
Video appears to show weapons in the skies over Damascus after the US, France and the UK say they've launched military strikes against Syria and its chemical weapons program. Source: CNN. CNN Original Series on CNNgo. Watch Full episode on. Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown. HFR SEPTEMBERÃâà...
CBS News
April 14, 2018
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Hundreds of Syrians gathered at landmark squares in the Syrian capital Saturday, honking their car horns, flashing victory signs and waving Syrian flags in scenes of defiance that followed unprecedented joint airstrikes by the United States, France and Britain. A few hours earlier,Ãâà...
WTVD-TV
April 14, 2018
Associated Press reporters saw smoke rising from east Damascus and the lit-up sky turning orange for the blasts. A huge fire could be seen from a distance to the east. Syrian television said the attacks targeted a scientific research center in Barzeh, near Damascus, and an army depot near Homs.
CBS News
April 13, 2018
DAMASCUS, Syria -- President Trump may punish the Assad regime for an apparent chemical weapons attack that was carried out against civilians in Syria. While the threat of a U.S. military strike may be on minds there, it's not showing much. Medical student Khaled al-Anaz, 23, says he hasn't doneÃâà...
CNN
April 11, 2018
Syrian state TV dismissed the reports as "theater," and Damascus locals that spoke to CNN said the reports "made no sense." "There definitely wasn't a chemical attack in Ghouta, for the simple reason that the regime doesn't need to chemically attack Ghouta in order to recapture it," said one man in hisÃâà...
CNBC
April 8, 2018
A chemical attack on a rebel-held town in eastern Ghouta killed dozens of people, a medical relief organisation and a rescue service said, and Washington said the reports — if confirmed — would demand an immediate international response. A joint statement by the medical relief organisation SyrianÃâà...
CNBC
March 13, 2018
The Russian military has threatened action against the U.S. is it strikes Syria's capital city of Damascus, according to multiple news reports. The threat, by Chief of Russia's General Staff Valery Gerasimov, was widely reported by Russia media sites such as state news agency RIA and Tass. It said GerasimovÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 13, 2018
Military Media, a news outlet controlled by Lebanon's Hezbollah group allied to Damascus, said buses had transported around 300 fighters from the Ajnad al-Sham group and their families to rebel-held Idlib province in the north. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said hundreds ofÃâà...
ABC News
March 13, 2018
This photo released by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, shows a member of the Syrian Civil Defense group carrying a boy who was wounded during airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Sunday, March. 11, 2018. Syrian government forcesÃâà...
STLtoday.com
March 12, 2018
This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, speaks during a news conference in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 10, 2018. Mekdad denied opposition charges that government forces used poison gas in their attacks on eastern Ghouta.
Yahoo Singapore News
March 12, 2018
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States pushed the United Nations Security Council on Monday to demand a ceasefire in Damascus and rebel-held eastern Ghouta, where Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces say they are targeting "terrorist" groups who are shelling the capital. The UnitedÃâà...
CBC.ca
March 12, 2018
Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, warned on Monday that if the Security Council fails to act on Syria, Washington "remains prepared to act if we must," just as it did last year when it fired missiles at a Syrian government air base over a deadly chemical weapons attack. "It is not the path we prefer,Ãâà...
New York Times
March 10, 2018
The eyewitness account from Mr. Malik, who heads operations for the United Nations refugee agency from the Syrian capital, Damascus, underscored that combatants on both sides are responsible for the horrific situation of civilians in eastern Ghouta. And this despite a Security Council resolution last weekÃâà...
ABC News
March 10, 2018
This frame grab from video provided by Syrian rebels Army of Islam media outlet that is consistent with independent AP reporting, shows flames rising from a Syrian government forces airstrike attack, in eastern Ghouta, suburb of Damascus, Syria, Friday, March 9, 2018. Relief workers used a brief lull inÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 6, 2018
This photo released by the Syrian Red Crescent shows a convoy of vehicles of the Syrian Red Crescent arriving to Douma, eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Monday, March. 5, 2018. Desperate for food and medicine, Syrian civilians in the war-ravaged eastern suburbs of Damascus hoped forÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 5, 2018
Desperate for food and medicine, Syrian civilians in the war-ravaged eastern suburbs of Damascus hoped for relief Monday as a 46-truck aid convoy began entering the rebel stronghold, the first such shipment in months. The U.N.'s humanitarian office said the convoy with health and nutrition supplies,Ãâà...
New York Times
March 2, 2018
The airstrikes have been unrelenting in a Damascus suburb, where frames of bombed buildings loom over ghostly streets. Hundreds of lives have been lost in less than two weeks of a government siege of the suburb, eastern Ghouta. Dozens of children are among the dead. Many have been crushed by theÃâà...
TIME
March 1, 2018
As the Damascus suburb joined protests against the regime of Bashar Assad during the Arab Spring, the government cracked down, and rebels took up arms. Regime forces were pushed out of the area in late 2012 and replied with a siege that prevented food, medicine and people from entering or leaving.
Voice of America
February 24, 2018
Another wave of airstrikes pounded the Syrian rebel enclave of eastern Ghouta Saturday, killing at least 24 people and increasing the civilian death toll over the past week to more than 500, including more than 120 children, a Britain-based monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human RightsÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
February 23, 2018
23, 2018 by the Syrian anti-government activist group Ghouta Media Center, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows smoke rising after Syrian government airstrikes hit Ghouta, suburb of Damascus, Syria. Syrian government warplanes supported by RussiaÃâà...
ABC News
February 23, 2018
Syrian government warplanes carried out a sixth day of airstrikes Friday in the rebel-held suburbs east of Damascus, killing 32 people, activists said, as the death toll from a week of bombardment soared over 400. At the United Nations, a vote on a Security Council resolution demanding a 30-dayÃâà...
BBC News
February 7, 2018
Israeli warplanes have fired missiles at a Syrian military position near the capital, Damascus, Syrian media report. A Syrian military statement said its air defence systems blocked most of the missiles, but gave no further details. A monitor said ammunition depots in Jamraya were hit. It is the location of aÃâà...
CBS News
February 6, 2018
LONDON -- At least 70 civilians, including 18 children, have died in a series of airstrikes targeting one of the largest rebel-held territories in Syria near Damascus, activists say. Everyone knows what's coming when they hear Russian and Syrian warplanes overhead, signaling another strike. Then, there's aÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
Airstrikes pounded an insurgent-held area near Damascus on Sunday, footage broadcast by state TV stations showed, as the Syrian government stepped up efforts to wipe out the insurgency's last foothold near the capital. Thick clouds of smoke rose from the al-Hajar al-Aswad district as the sound of jetsÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
December 31, 1999
A five-hour truce ordered by Syria's Russian allies to allow civilians to flee a besieged, opposition-held enclave near Damascus failed to result in aid deliveries or medical evacuations Tuesday, while deadly airstrikes and shelling continued in the region. The U.N. and aid agencies criticized the unilateralÃâà...
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