Al Jazeera: Syria's war: Battles rage in Eastern Ghouta, as 'toll tops 1,000'
Syria's army and rebel groups locked in battle, as civilian death toll hits 1,099, according to UK-based war monitor.
The Syrian army and rebel groups early on Sunday engaged in fierce battles in Eastern Ghouta, where fighting has killed at least 1,099 civilians over the past 21 days, a war monitor said.
The death toll, recorded by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) - a UK-based war monitoring group - included 227 children and 154 women. At least 4,378 others were wounded.
"Warplanes covered the sky in Eastern Ghouta yesterday," Abdelmalik Aboud, an activist in the town of Douma, told Al Jazeera on Sunday.
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