Regime launches a ferocious assault on the remaining rebel-held enclave near Damascus, eastern Ghouta. Syrian rebels and families begin exile from besieged Ghouta Read moreThe agreement is the second forced transfer deal to be reached in Ghouta. Eastern Ghouta was divided into three rapidly shrinking patches of territory as part of the government’s campaign to reclaim the last opposition stronghold near the capital Damascus. The UN estimates that nearly 400,000 people were in eastern Ghouta before the offensive. Pleas for safe passage for civilians trapped in eastern Ghouta Read moreThe displacement deal will bring the campaign in eastern Ghouta, which was condemned as a “monstrous annihilation” by the UN high commissioner for human rights, closer to conclusion, and it will cement the regime’s hold on central and western Syria.

Source: The Guardian March 23, 2018 16:58 UTC