The world may be obsessed by the atrocities committed by the Islamic State group, but a wider bloodbath provoked by Syria's civil war is continuing unabated, as per the words of western journalist Scott Lucas. Syrian regime troops hit Douma with heavy bombing, from Monday night until Tuesday, killing dozens of people in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta province.
Regime forces say that the bombing was a response to rebel groups in the region firing rockets toward the capital Damascus.