Bassam Khabieh / Reuters A man carries an injured boy through the rubble in the besieged town of Hamouriyeh, eastern Ghouta, Syria. “There is a need for avoiding the massacre because we will be judged by history,” U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said. “Those who support the terrorists are responsible” for the situation in eastern Ghouta, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters. SCORCHED EARTHThe opposition-held eastern Ghouta region, home to 400,000 people, has been under siege by government forces since 2013. “They want to break our will and turn Ghouta into another Aleppo but this is their dream,” said Yusef Dughmi, a resident in the devastated eastern Ghouta town of Arbin overnight.

Source: Huffington Post February 22, 2018 11:15 UTC