BEIRUT – Hundreds of people are fleeing advances by Syrian government forces in eastern Ghouta, a war monitor and a resident said on Sunday, as Damascus presses an offensive to crush the last major rebel stronghold near the capital.
Reuters: Syrians flee government advances in eastern Ghouta
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on March 4, shows a general view of the destruction in the town of Al-Nashabiyah in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region outside Syria's capital Damascus.
The Syrian regime has regained control of 10 percent of the rebel enclave in eastern Ghouta, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, taking over areas of the towns of Nashabiye and Hazarma, south-east of the rebel stronghold.
