The locally-run Ghouta Media Center said 23 civilians had been killed. Rebels in Eastern Ghouta have held out against government forces throughout the nearly seven years of the country’s civil war. The U.N. says there are some 350,000 people in need of immediate humanitarian aid in Eastern Ghouta. Earlier this month, Syrian rebels attacked a nearby military installation in the area, seizing weapons and ammunition. Also Sunday, at least 10 people were killed in an airstrike on an Islamic State-held village in eastern Syria, the activist-run DeirEzzor 24 group reported.

Source: National Post November 26, 2017 12:27 UTC