East Ghouta

SYRIA: Ghouta Terrorist Occupiers Attack, Burn Cars in Civilian Convoy of 300 Families

Once again, the US Coalition and Gulf-backed “moderate rebel” terrorists have committed an egregious war crime – preventing East Ghouta residents from fleeing by targeting them as they approach humanitarian corridors set up by the Syrian government – and ignoring the calls by the Russian Reconciliation Center to allow civilians to leave in an orderly fashion.

Syria update: Syrian army advances in East Ghouta; Turkish army advances in Afrin

In the last few days the pattern the Syrian conflict has been taking is one of continuing advances by the Syrian army against the Jihadi fighters in East Ghouta, and by the Turkish army against the Kurdish militia in Afrin.
Reports from East Ghouta suggest that 40% of the former Jihadi enclave has now been recaptured by the Syrian army, up from the 30% of the enclave which the Syrian controlled just two days ago.

East Ghouta: the last great battle of the Syrian war?

Reading media reports of the fighting in east Ghouta over the last few days has triggered an eery sense of déjà vu.
It is like taking a time machine back to the autumn of 2016 and listening to all the arguments over the fighting in Aleppo all over again.
Just as in 2016 the reports concern fighting between the Syrian military and a large force of Jihadis – in both cases around 10-15,000 men – trapped in a district of one of Syria’s two main cities.
In 2016 it was eastern Aleppo; this time it is east Ghouta, which is a suburb of Syria’s capital Damascus.