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Syria rebels, civilians leave penultimate Ghouta pocket
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Syria rebels, civilians leave penultimate Ghouta pocket

Hundreds of Syrian rebels and civilians quit the penultimate opposition-held pocket of Eastern Ghouta on Saturday, bringing the government ever…
Rocket attack on Syrian capital kills 35 people
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Rocket attack on Syrian capital kills 35 people

Rockets fired on a market in a government-controlled neighborhood of Damascus on Tuesday killed 35 people and wounded more than…
Syrian President Assad visits troops on Ghouta’s front line
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Syrian President Assad visits troops on Ghouta’s front line

Syrian President Bashar Assad visited troops Sunday on the front line in the newly captured areas of eastern Ghouta, near…
Syria: More than 10,000 people flee eastern Ghouta as fighting intensifies
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Syria: More than 10,000 people flee eastern Ghouta as fighting intensifies

Russian military spokesman Vladimir Zolotukhin said at least 11,000 people have fled the besieged area of eastern Ghouta in Syria…
Any gas attack in Syria would be ‘very unwise’: Mattis
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Any gas attack in Syria would be ‘very unwise’: Mattis

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said Sunday it would be “very unwise” for the Syrian regime to use gas as…
Aid convoy quits Syria enclave as regime presses onslaught
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Aid convoy quits Syria enclave as regime presses onslaught

An international convoy has cut short its mission to Syria’s rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta after delivering desperately needed aid…
Aid convoy headed to besieged rebel-held Damascus suburbs
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Aid convoy headed to besieged rebel-held Damascus suburbs

Desperate for food and basic medicines, many of the besieged and bombarded Syrian civilians in Damascus’ eastern suburbs of Ghouta…
Syria’s Assad says Ghouta campaign must go on
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Syria’s Assad says Ghouta campaign must go on

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Sunday his forces must push on with their campaign to retake the besieged enclave of…
In Syria’s Ghouta, shelters are tombs for the living
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In Syria’s Ghouta, shelters are tombs for the living

There have been many goodbyes in eastern Ghouta — more than 600 in the past two weeks. That is the…
Syrian Observatory says strikes hit two Ghouta towns, military source denies
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Syrian Observatory says strikes hit two Ghouta towns, military source denies

 The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said air strikes hit two towns in the eastern Ghouta enclave on Tuesday despite…
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