As images of Syrian children gasping and convulsing spread around the world, US President Donald Trump and other international leaders denounced the Syrian regime for their alleged role in a suspected chemical attack.
Several Syrian activist groups Saturday reported that a brutal attack on the remnants of the rebel-held city of Douma in Eastern Ghouta left dozens of civilians dead and scores wounded.
Airstrikes rained down again Saturday in the Syrian enclave of Eastern Ghouta, according to activist group Damascus Media Center, as swarms of civilians continued to pour out of the battered rebel-held area not far from the nation's capital.
The Syrian regime captured a major town in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Saturday after "hysterical" shelling and airstrikes, an activist on the ground said.
Medical facilities supported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have received over 1,000 dead and 4,800 wounded in Syria's rebel-held Eastern Ghouta in just two weeks, the organization said in a statement.
More than 1,000 children have been killed or injured this year across Syria, a United Nations Children's Fund official told CNN on Tuesday.
A 46-truck aid convoy -- some vehicles stripped of desperately needed medical kits -- brought supplies to the besieged rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Monday.
Activists in besieged Eastern Ghouta have taken to wrapping dead bodies in United Nations banners to express residents' "frustration" with the international community, activist monitoring group the Damascus Media Center told CNN.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered a daily five-hour pause in hostilities in the besieged Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, amid reports of chlorine gas attacks.
A United Nations resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria appears "to be ink on paper."
