From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
More deadly regime strikes as Syria toll mounts
SAQBA, Syria — Fresh regime strikes on a besieged rebel-held enclave near Damascus kill 35 civilians on Tuesday despite mounting Western pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The bloodshed comes a day after another 31 civilians were killed in Eastern Ghouta and as the United Nations pleaded for a truce in the seven-year-old conflict to allow for aid deliveries.
Fighting also rages in the northwestern province of Idlib, where the UN says the violence “made a mockery” of the de-escalation zones agreed last year in a bid to pave the way for an end to the war.
The latest casualties in Ghouta, on paper also a de-escalation zone, come as Washington threatens military action over the reported use of chemical weapons in the enclave, which regime and allied forces have besieged since 2013.
— AFP
The Times of Israel Community.