Russia says it has fulfilled its part of the agreement to restore calm to Eastern Ghouta, where it has announced a humanitarian truce, urging militants and their backers to follow suit.

The Russian military says terrorists in Syria are blocking civilian evacuations from Eastern Ghouta by shelling the route out of the area in defiance of the humanitarian ceasefire.

The UK says it would start “seriously” considering joining the US military strikes against Syria if it is proven that chemical attacks has taken place against civilians there.

Putin orders the implementation of a daily ceasefire in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta to start on February 27.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rejects 'bogus' reports about an alleged chemical attack in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta region.

Shortly after Moscow warns of militant plans to stage a gas attack and blame it on government, militant sources say a child is dead and several people have suffered symptoms of exposure to chlorine gas in Eastern Ghouta.

Russia warns that militants in Eastern Ghouta are preparing to launch a chemical attack which they plan to blame on the Syrian government.

The Syrian army launches a ground operation against the al-Nusra Front and other terrorist groups in the Eastern Ghouta region, liberating some areas from the grip of terrorists.

Iran's top military commander says both Tehran and Damascus will comply with a month-long ceasefire in Syria approved by the UN Security Council.

Nearly a dozen others were also wounded in the mortar attack on the Syrian capital.