At least 42 people have been killed in Eastern Ghouta as regime 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...

HAMMURIYEH (AFP)- New air strikes and barrel bombs pounded Eastern Ghouta Sunday as regime forces pressed a three-week advance that splintered the rebel enclave and trapped dozens under collapsed buildings. Defying global calls for a ceasefire, the regime has pursued a ferocious...

The Syrian regime army has in effect cut off the two large eastern Ghouta towns of Douma and Harasta by advancing into areas between them and the rest of the rebel enclave, and by bringing roads linking them into firing range, a war monitor said. The advances on Saturday morning...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels shot down a Su-22 fighter jet on Friday while it was bombing the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs, source told Zaman al-Wasl. Brigadier General Mohamed al-Ahmed, commander of the 54th Squadron and the military pilot who conducts most of airstrikes on...