UN says no halt to fighting in Syria's eastern Ghouta despite Russian truce
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BEIRUT/GENEVA - Fighting raged on in the eastern Ghouta district of Syria on Tuesday, the United Nations said, despite a five-hour ceasefire called by President Bashar Assad's ally Russia.
"We have reports this morning there is continuous fighting in eastern Ghouta," UN humanitarian spokesman Jens Laerke told a briefing in Geneva. "Clearly the situation on the ground is not such that convoys can go in or medical evacuations can go out."
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said helicopters dropped two bombs on one town in the enclave and a warplane struck another town during the truce. A Syrian military source denied that there had been air strikes. Reuters was not immediately able to verify either report.
