Syrians walk through the rubble down a street filled with destroyed buildings, in the aftermath of reported bombardment by government forces in the rebel-held besieged town of Arbin, in the Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of Damascus, during an air
Geneva: Syria's government agreed on Tuesday to a ceasefire in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, following days of heavy bombardment, the United Nations envoy to the war-ravaged country said.
"Russia has proposed and the government has accepted a ceasefire in Eastern Ghouta," Staffan de Mistura told reporters in Geneva, where an eighth round of peace talks aimed at ending the Syrian conflict was getting underway.
