Updated Wed, October 19th 2016 at 15:55 GMT +3Residents flee a site after an air strike on the rebel-held besieged town of Douma, eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, SyriaASIA: Dozens of children line up for bread on the side of a road in Eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held area near Damascus. The densely-populated rural area east of Damascus known as the Eastern Ghouta has been besieged since 2013 and is much larger and harder to conquer than Daraya. Several hundred thousand people are believed to be trapped inside the besieged area, similar in scale to the 250,000 civilians under siege in Aleppo. Abu Yasser said he and a few friends tried to hold out for as long as possible, but the air strikes became unbearable. I was scared that if we got bombed, there would be nobody to help us," he told Reuters by phone.

Source: Standard Digital October 19, 2016 11:26 UTC