According to the reports, 38 homes belonging to Christian families were destroyed by fire, leaving them homeless. Around 70 ...

The conflict inside Syria has already gone on a year longer than World War II, and is only getting worse as bodies continue to pile up in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta.

On Feb. 18, Syrian government forces, backed by Russia and Iran, launched a fierce bombing campaign on Eastern Ghouta in a final push to retake the rebel-held area.

At least 27 people were killed and 60 more injured Wednesday in Syrian government airstrikes on three towns in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus.

According to Syrian official media reports, the Syrian Arab Army secured the exit of at least 10 thousand civilians from the town of Hamoria in Eastern Ghouta through the newly opened al-Baz corridor.

Civilians trapped in Syria’s rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region said they are now coming under attack from a new kind of rocket that is spreading deadly fires.

Syria’s verdant agricultural belt called Ghouta had been overrun by factories and workshops by the 1990s, with laborers living in ramshackle slums denuded of all color but the gray of concrete.

Eastern Ghouta To Northern Syria, But Still Far From Safe Mouayad Mohildeen, a young Syrian father, fled his long besieged home in a Damascus suburb for northern Syria. He tells NPR's Don Gonyea ...

That is how the U.N. has described the onslaught by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the rebel enclave of eastern Ghouta, which is located in a so-called "de-escalation zone ...

BEIRUT -- 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 ...

In Ghouta, Syria, more than a hundred people were killed Feb. 19 by attacks from pro-government forces. (Video: Syrian Civil Defense in Damascus) Advertisement.

BEIRUT — Syrian government forces defied a new U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire on Sunday by launching a ground offensive, sustaining their airstrikes and allegedly ...