Raids, shelling on Syria rebel bastion despite truce: Monitor

Beirut: Air raids and shelling hit Syria's rebel bastion of Eastern Ghouta on Wednesday, a monitor said, less than 24 hours after Russia announced a freeze on fighting there. 

"Military aircraft, either Russian or Syrian, carried out two strikes on the edge of Arbin," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

He said regime artillery also struck the town of Harasta in Eastern Ghouta, near the capital Damascus.