A second batch of sick civilians, most of them children, left the besieged Eastern Ghouta, aid officials said on Thursday, but hundreds of critical patients remained trapped. Four evacuations took place on Tuesday and another group of 12 made it out late Wednesday, but a top...

At least 16 people have died while waiting for medical evacuation from Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta region, the United Nations said Thursday. Jan Egeland, head of the U.N.'s humanitarian taskforce for Syria, said a list put together several months ago of nearly 500 civilians in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Social media activists launched a campaign in solidarity with Karim, a two-month-old child who who lost his left eye after a regime air strike on the besieged Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta last Friday. “Karim lost his eye and had his skull broken by Assad...

An infant in opposition-held Eastern Ghouta -- a suburb of Damascus -- died on Friday due to lack of health care. Walid Awwata, doctor of the baby, said that the 45-day-old Mohanned was diagnosed with bilateral hydronephrosis. Bilateral hydronephrosis is a condition that...