Syria activists: Government attacks outside Damascus kill 22

DAMASCUS - 26 November 2017: Syrian government airstrikes and shelling outside the Syrian capital killed at least 22 civilians, activists reported Sunday, as the fighting showed no signs of letting up ahead of the resumption of UN peace talks in Geneva, ABC News reported.

The government's jets and artillery launched a wave of strikes on residential areas in the Eastern Ghouta suburbs of Damascus, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group. By midday, 23 people had been killed.

The locally-run Ghouta Media Center said 22 civilians had been killed.

Rescuers arriving at the scene in Misraba, a town in the eastern Ghouta region, picked up the wounded and the dead from where they'd fallen, in streets in a residential area in the town, as seen in a video posted by the Ghouta Media Center and the Syrian Civil Defense search-and-rescue group, also known as the White Helmets.

Rebels in Eastern Ghouta have held out against government forces throughout the nearly seven years of the country's civil war.