TEHRAN, April 12 - A senior aide to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has visited Syria’s Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of the capital Damascus.
TEHRAN, April 03 -Russia says more than 40,000 civilians have returned to Eastern Ghouta after the Syrian capital’s countryside was almost fully liberated from militants.
TEHRAN, April 02 -Drone footage filmed on Sunday showed the key motorway connecting the Syrian capital of Damascus and Eastern Ghouta after it was cleared of militants by Syrian government forces after a seven-year-long blockade.
TEHRAN, March 20 - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that 65 percent of territory in Syria's eastern Ghouta had been "liberated from terrorists," the RIA news agency reported.
TEHRAN, March 18 - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has visited army positions and talked to Syrian forces in Eastern Ghouta suburb of the capital Damascus, Syrian state news agency SANA reports.
TEHRAN, March 18 - Russia says more than 20,000 people left Eastern Ghouta on Sunday, using one of the four humanitarian corridors set up to enable safe passage out of the Syrian capital's suburb.
TEHRAN, March 17 - The Syrian army has intercepted a truckload of weapons, including American and British ones, heading to the militants holed up in Eastern Ghouta amid its operation to liberate the Damascus suburb.
TEHRAN, March 15 - Russia and Syria said thousands of civilians have managed to flee Eastern Ghouta less than a day after government forces advanced into a strategic town south of the militant-held Damascus suburb.
TEHRAN, March 10-The first batch of foreign-backed militants, along with their families, has left Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, a day after the Syrian government opened a second safe corridor out of the militant-held enclave near the capital Damascus.
TEHRAN, March 9 - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says a humanitarian aid convoy has entered Syria’s Eastern Ghouta as government troops secured a humanitarian corridor for trapped civilians to leave the militant-held area near Damascus.
TEHRAN, March 8 - The Iranian president says efforts have to be concentrated on implementing a sustainable ceasefire in Syria and preventing a humanitarian catastrophe in the country's Eastern Ghouta region.
TEHRAN, March 7 - A Syrian army colonel said government forces will lift the siege on the militant-held Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, making it possible for people trapped in the embattled enclave to return to the “state’s embrace” soon.
TEHRAN, March 5 - Russia says militants based in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta have promised to allow civilians to leave the enclave where Syrian troops are in the midst of an operation to drive out terrorists.
Syrian fighter jets bombed the venue of a secret meeting of two terrorist groups in Eastern Ghouta, leaving at least 30 militants dead, including several Syrian and Saudi commanders.