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Radio New Zealand
March 25, 2018
Saturday's evacuations from the towns of Zamalka, Arbin and Ain Tarma had been due to start in the morning but buses only arrived in the afternoon. Footage showed the buses queuing at a crossing point into the enclave before travelling along a route cleared of wreckage and unexploded shells andÃâà...
Ammon News
March 25, 2018
In the nearby town of Zamalka, also included in the deal, ambulances were seen preparing to transport the sick and wounded for treatment. In addition to Zamalka and Arbin, the agreement includes Ain Terma and parts of the Jobar district -- all controlled by Faylaq al-Rahman. Eastern Ghouta was once theÃâà...
Ahram Online
March 25, 2018
About 7,000 fighters, along with family members and other civilians who do not wish to come back under Assad's rule, were to leave the towns of Zamalka, Arbin, Ein Terma and Jobar starting on Saturday, rebels and state media said. They will go to Idlib province in the northwest - the destination for manyÃâà...
Arab News
March 25, 2018
About 7,000 fighters will leave the towns of Zamalka, Arbin, Ein Terma and Jobar. ... areas recaptured by the Assad regime will not be prosecuted, but Wael Alwan, spokesman for the Failaq Al-Rahman group that was dominant in Zamalka, Arbin, Ein Terma and Jobar, said he did not trust the guarantees.
FRANCE 24
March 25, 2018
About 7,000 people - fighters along with family members and other civilians who do not wish to come back under Assad's rule - were to leave the towns of Zamalka, Arbin, Ein Terma and Jobar starting on Saturday, rebels and state media said. They will go to Idlib province in the northwest - the destinationÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 25, 2018
The government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media said a corridor is being prepared for Faylaq al-Rahman members and their relatives to leave the towns of Zamalka, Arbeen, Ein Tarma and Jobar. The evacuations come after thousands streamed out of Harasta, the first pocket after a similarÃâà...
Manhattan Mercury
March 25, 2018
The government-controlled SCMM said a corridor was prepared for Faylaq al-Rahman members and their relatives to leave the towns of Zamalka, Arbeen, Ein Tarma and Jobar. The evacuations come after thousands streamed out of Harasta, the first pocket after a similar negotiated deal for the evacuationÃâà...
Pueblo Chieftain
March 24, 2018
Rabieh Dibeh, correspondent for state-affiliated al-Ikhbariya TV, said the towns that are to be evacuated are Zamalka, Arbeen, Ein Tarma and Jobar. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it is not clear whether Failaq al-Rahman members will head to the rebel-held northwesternÃâà...
The National
March 22, 2018
Rebels fired rockets from eastern Ghouta into Damascus on Thursday, killing two people, state media reported. Television showed burning projectile parts on streets and in parks. Government air strikes had pummelled parts of eastern Ghouta on Thursday morning, striking Arbin and Zamalka and killing 19Ãâà...
Irish Examiner
March 3, 2018
... government's push to squeeze the insurgents out of the region continues. The Observatory and the opposition's Syrian Civil Defenxe, also known as White Helmets, reported air strikes earlier on Friday on the suburbs of Zamalka, Douma and Hazzeh. The Syrian Civil Defence said one person was killed.
ABC News
March 3, 2018
The Observatory and the opposition's Syrian Civil Defense, also known as White Helmets, reported airstrikes earlier on Friday on the suburbs of Zamalka, Douma and Hazzeh. The Syrian Civil Defense said one person was killed. French President Emmanuel Macron and President Donald Trump discussedÃâà...
HuffPost
March 3, 2018
... Assad's Poison Gas Warfare. In Syria's Ghouta region, attacks continue even after a United Nations ceasefire. By Lennart Pfahler. BASSAM KHABIEH/REUTERS. Syrian director Humam Husari, right, and cameraman Sami al-Shami, center, film a scene in the rebel-held besieged town of Zamalka, Syria,Ãâà...
euronews
February 24, 2018
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights the air strikes have killed more than 500 people over the last week. The dead included more than 120 children. The Britain-based monitor said raids hit Douma, Zamalka and other towns there on Saturday killing 31 people. The surge of air strikes andÃâà...
The Recorder
February 23, 2018
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Arkansas Online
February 22, 2018
Dr. Waleed Awata described a desperate scene at the small hospital where he works as an anesthesiologist in the town of Zamalka near Damascus. The facility, with just 17 beds, received 82 patients Tuesday night, he said. "We had to give them IVs and treat them on the floor," the 44-year-old physicianÃâà...
NWAOnline
February 22, 2018
Dr. Waleed Awata described a desperate scene at the small hospital where he works as an anesthesiologist in the town of Zamalka near Damascus. The facility, with just 17 beds, received 82 patients Tuesday night, he said. "We had to give them IVs and treat them on the floor," the 44-year-old physicianÃâà...
WKYT
February 21, 2018
A Syrian doctor in the opposition-held suburbs of the capital Damascus says the number of casualties from a Syrian government air blitz is overwhelming hospitals in the besieged region. Waleed Awata is an anesthesiologist working at a hospital in the town of Zamalka, part of the eastern Ghouta suburbÃâà...
TIME
February 21, 2018
Dr. Waleed Awata described a desperate, chaotic scene at the small hospital where he works as an anesthesiologist in the town of Zamalka, one of a cluster of settlements that make up eastern Ghouta. The facility, with just 17 beds, received 82 patients on Tuesday night alone, he said. “We had to giveÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 20, 2018
Today, a sixth hospital was reportedly struck in the town of Zamalka. These unconscionable acts are yet another grim reminder of the depravity and madness of this conflict now almost in its eighth year. Today, approximately half of all medical facilities in Syria are now closed or only partially functioning.
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
Between 15 and 16 March, aerial bombardment on Kafr Batna, Saqba, Zamalka, Arbin and Hezzeh reportedly resulted in scores of civilian deaths and injuries. ○ Since 11 March, at least 20,000 people reportedly left east Ghouta. The majority of those leaving are from the Hamouriyeh area. Those who leftÃâà...
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