UN aid convoy to make fresh attempt to reach battered Syrian rebel enclave

A second aid convoy will attempt to reach desperate residents of Syria's Eastern Ghouta rebel enclave later Thursday after weeks of pummeling by government forces and Russian warplanes in defiance of UN calls for a halt to violence. The blistering Syrian government onslaught, backed by Moscow, has prompted international outrage, including accusations by the United Nations that the government was orchestrating an "apocalypse". The Syrian army and its allied militias began a fierce bombing campaign on February 18 on Eastern Ghouta -- the last opposition bastion near Damascus -- then launched a ground offensive a week later.

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