 Syrian army has made a significant advance in its effort to take rebel-held Eastern Ghouta. According to reports, troops have cut off the region's biggest town, Douma, and isolated another.
The advance would effectively split the region into three parts. The Syrian government began a major offensive last month to re-take Eastern Ghouta, near the capital Damascus.
According to UK-based monitors the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the troops have taken control of half of the region, in an advance that has left around 1,000 civilians dead over the past three weeks.
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