The situation in besieged eastern Ghouta is dire and deteriorating. The Syrian rebel-controlled Damascus suburb has been cut off from the world by the Assad regime and Russia. On Monday ...

Beleaguered civilians in Syria’s rebel-held Eastern Ghouta say they are being assailed by a new kind of rocket that spreads potentially deadly fires, as human rights groups condemned ...

LONDON -- In the merciless bombardment of eastern Ghouta, nowhere is safe. Missiles rained down on one neighborhood, as 10-year-old Noor and 8-year-old Alaa tweeted their plight to the world.

Faces are contorted with suffering or numb with shock. Harrowing images from Eastern Ghouta, a besieged rebel-held area east of Syria’s capital, show the horror of four days of intense ...

Here are some cruel facts about the siege of Ghouta. They have become buried in the real rubble and blood and the sham and apocalyptic expressions of horror from the West. The first and most ...

One of the last opposition holdouts near Damascus is Ghouta. While the area is just a few miles from the capital, conditions could not be more different. There's a steady stream of patients at a ...

Syria continues to mass its armed forces around the east Ghouta enclave of Damascus, including army units commanded by President Bashar al-Assad’s brother Maher and by Colonel Soheil Hassan, ...

Reporting from Beirut — On a clear day, drivers commuting into Damascus can glimpse the pulverized neighborhoods of the Ghouta area on the eastern flank of the Syrian capital. Many residents ...

Human rights monitors report that nearly 200 people have been killed in the rebel-held region of Eastern Ghouta, Syria, in the past 48 hours, with Monday marking the bloodiest single day since an ...

Syrian state-run TV is carrying images of President Bashar Assad visiting troops on the front line in the newly captured areas of eastern Ghouta, near the capital Damascus. Al-Ikhbariya TV ...

There have been many goodbyes in eastern Ghouta — more than 600 in the past two weeks. That is the estimated number of civilians killed in the Syrian military’s offensive to recapture the ...