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The United States, the United Kingdom and France have jointly opened the attack on Syrian leader Assad.

A first team of researchers from the United Nations arrived in Syria on Friday to see if there had been an attack with poison last weekend. UN chief António Guterres said this Friday and stated that a second team is expected soon in Damascus.

Syria, Russia and Iran must allow international observers and medical workers unhindered access to the site at Damascus where a suspected attack with chemical weapons took place on Saturday. NATO CEO Jens Stoltenberg said that Thursday. He condemns the attack 'in the strongest possible terms.'

German Chancellor Angela Merkel concludes that her country is taking part in military attacks on Syria. She said Thursday that Germany would do everything to make it clear that the use of chemical weapons is unacceptable.

The Syrian government army fully controls the city of Douma in East Ghouta. That says a Russian army official according to news agency TASS, which reports that the Russian military police are used to keep the order in its place.

Employees of the United Nations in Syria can not confirm that chemical weapons were deployed last weekend in Duma, a devastated and surrounded suburb of Damascus. According to a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization (WHO), people who have had problems with breathing have been treated in recent days. Whether or not the health problems have anything to do with chemical weapons, the WHO could not determine on the spot.

The United Nations issued an alarm on Tuesday about 'a wave of displaced persons' from the Syrian enclave in East Ghouta. It is estimated that more than 133,000 people have fled the area within four weeks, where UN aid organizations still do not have access.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is trying to find out whether chemical weapons were used in the Syrian rebel enclave Douma this weekend. The organization says it closely monitors the incident and collects additional information 'from all available sources.'

Two buses with fighters from the extremist group Jaish al-Islam and relatives left the besieged enclave Duma on Monday after negotiations. According to Syrian state media, they go to Jarablus, a place on the Turkish border on the right bank of the river Euphrates that is not in the hands of the government.

A convoy with almost 7000 members of a rebel group, their relatives and other civilians, left from a besieged part of East Ghouta near Damascus. They travel to the northwest of Syria. That reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The Syrian government and insurgents in an enclave east of Damascus have agreed on the evacuation of fighters to the northwest of Syria. This reported several observers. Buses are ready to transport the estimated 1500 fighters and possibly 6000 relatives from Harasta.

Extremists of Islamic State (IS) have extended their besieged stronghold in East Ghouta. With a surprise attack, they captured an area about 5 kilometers south of the center of Damascus in the night from Monday to Tuesday.

An air raid on Arbin in East Ghouta killed fifteen children and two women. That is what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced on Monday evening.

The Syrian army has forced an opening from the place Hammouriyeh located in the besieged East-Ghouta region. Syrian media reported that a stream of citizens is fleeing the city.

A convoy of relief goods entered the northern part of the jihadist stronghold Oost-Ghouta on Thursday. The International Red Cross reports that the convoy consists of 25 trucks. Together they deliver 340 tons of food.

Sick and wounded civilians have left the Syrian rebel enclave East Ghouta. An official from the rebel group Jaish al-Islam said that patients could leave Tuesday after an agreement was reached about a medical evacuation. They would be on a UN list with about a thousand people who urgently need medical help.

Russian military personnel say that 76 people, including 49 children, left the Syrian eastern district of Ghouta on Monday through a humanitarian corridor. According to a Russian monitoring center on the ceasefire in Syria, militants would have attacked civilians on their way to the corridor, killing five people, according to Russian news agencies.

For the first time in eight months, Syrian fighter planes have carried out air strikes in the southern province of Deraa. The attacks were just east of the provincial capital Deraa and other attacks about 60 kilometers and southwest of Damascus.

The authorities in the rebel town of Douma in East Ghouta are struggling with the influx of refugees. Thousands of displaced families reside in streets and parks due to lack of space in cellars and other shelters, the city council warns, which speaks of a 'catastrophic' situation.

The Syrian army completely surrounded the city of Douma on Sunday. That reports a military news agency from Hezbollah, which is allied with the Syrian government.

The Syrian army has cut Douma and Harasta, the two largest cities of East Ghouta, from the rest of the rebel enclave. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that soldiers have entered areas between the two cities and the rest of the enclave.

The Syrian state television reported Friday that fighters and their families have started with the departure from East Ghouta. In this heavily besieged and bombed enclave east of the capital Damascus insurgents still serve the service.

A convoy of relief goods was in the besieged region of East Ghouta near the Syrian capital Damascus on Friday and all goods were unloaded. This has been announced by the Red Cross. The thirteen trucks have since returned from Douma, the largest place in the area that has been surrounded for years.

A group of German representatives of the extreme right AfD has visited the Assad regime in Damascus. Making the salonfähig of the bloody mass murderer causes violent reactions to our eastern neighbors.

Since the start of the Syrian army's offensive in mid-February in East Ghouta, more than a thousand deaths have occurred. This was reported by Médecins Sans Frontières on Thursday. More than 4,800 people were injured.

The Russian army offered fighters in the area around East Ghouta, east of the Syrian capital Damascus, a way out. The Ministry of Defense announced that transport will be made available for the fighters and their families. They can then leave a safe route and are allowed to use personal weapons \u0026 # x27; take.

A convoy of relief goods has left the city of Douma in Oost-Ghouta for safety reasons. 'They have unloaded as much as possible under the conditions on the spot \u0026 # x27 ;, #,' said a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The fighting in East Ghouta continued unabated on Monday. Air strikes have been carried out on several front lines in the rebellious Syrian region east of the capital Damascus. That is what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has announced. According to the UK-based organization, targets in Harasta, Beit Sawa and Hosh al-Ashari have been bombed and bombarded with mortar grenades.

The Syrian army and its allies have owned more than a third of the rebellious enclave in East Ghouta near Damascus since the beginning of the ground offensive a week ago. That reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has defended the controversial offensive in East Ghouta. He called the military operation 'a continuation of the fight against terrorism.' The president made it clear that the struggle continues, despite international criticism.