(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's missile attacks killed at least 7 people, including two women and two children, in the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus, local rescuing group said Tuesday.
Mahmoud Adam, spokesman for the Civil Defense in Damascus sububrs, said the regime army had fired 6 surface-to-surface missiles on Hamouriya and Saqba towns east of the capital, leaving dozens killed and wounded.
Meanwhile, a new round of Syria peace talks opened Tuesday in Geneva as the Assad regime fiercely denied it used a prison crematorium to hide evidence of thousands of murdered detainees, AFP reported.
Five previous rounds of UN-backed negotiations have failed to yield a political solution to the raging six-year conflict.
UN envoy Staffan de Mistura met with Syrian government negotiator Bashar al-Jaafari at the UN headquarters on Tuesday morning, followed by the opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) in the afternoon.
But hopes for a breakthrough remain dim, with tensions rising even further over US claims of new regime atrocities at the notorious Saydnaya prison near Damascus.
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