GHOUTA: An aid convoy entered Syria’s battered Eastern Ghouta on Friday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said, after a previous delivery was cut short by bombardment of the rebel enclave. “They are in,” ICRC spokeswoman Ingy Sedky said of the 13 trucks loaded with 2,400 food parcels that had been waiting outside the […]
Syria war
Regime forces advance in Syria’s battered Ghouta
DAMASCUS: Government forces seized territory inside Syria’s rebel enclave Eastern Ghouta on Saturday, intensifying fighting as tens of thousands of civilians in the besieged enclave near Damascus awaited urgently needed aid. On another front in Syria’s seven-year civil war, Turkish air strikes killed 36 pro-regime fighters in a Kurdish enclave near Turkey’s border. Syria’s war […]
Clashes rock edge of Syria’s Ghouta despite ‘truce’
DAMASCUS: Syrian regime forces clashed on Wednesday with rebels on the outskirts of Eastern Ghouta despite a “humanitarian pause” announced by Russia and now in its second day, a monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting was fierce and broke out overnight in the rebel-held enclave on the eastern outskirts […]
Fighting continues in Syria enclave despite truce: UN
DAMASCUS: Fighting raged on in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta on Tuesday, making relief operations in the rebel enclave impossible despite a “humanitarian pause” announced by Russia, the United Nations said. “Fighting continues this morning. That is what our reports from Eastern Ghouta tell us,” said Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the UN humanitarian office. “The United […]
Turkey terms Kurd militia aides in Syria ‘legitimate target’
ANKARA: Turkey on Wednesday said it would consider a “legitimate target” any group that comes to the aid of Kurdish militia in Afrin in northern Syria. The threat from presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin came a day after Syrian pro-regime forces entered Afrin, only to come under fire from Turkish forces. Last month Ankara launched a […]