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CNN goes inside formerly besieged Eastern Ghouta

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CNN goes inside formerly besieged Eastern Ghouta

CNN's Frederik Pleitgen goes inside Eastern Ghouta -- the besieged suburb of Damascus. Years of siege and fighting have laid waste to what used to be a thriving business district, leaving tens of thousands displaced.

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Syria Ghouta destruction

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CNN goes inside formerly besieged Eastern Ghouta

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Syrian President Bashar al Assad drives through newly recaptured parts of Eastern Ghouta.

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Syria's Bashar al-Assad visits Eastern Ghouta

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An American women trapped in Ghouta since 2000

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American mother of 8 trapped in war zone

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Syrians from rebel-held Eastern Ghouta arrive at the regime-held checkpoint in Adra, on the northeastern outskirts of Damascus, after escaping the enclave through a corridor opened by the government forces on March 15, 2018.
Thousands of civilians poured out of Syria's Eastern Ghouta bringing the government closer to retaking the rebel enclave near the capital as the brutal war enters its eighth year. / AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA (Photo credit should read LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Thousands evacuate Eastern Ghouta

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Syrian civilians, evacuated from rebel-held areas in the Eastern Ghouta, gather at a school in the regime-controlled Hosh Nasri, on the northeastern outskirts of the capital Damascus on March 16, 2018, ahead of being relocated to other areas.
On the edge of Ghouta, a sprawling semi-rural area within mortar range of central Damascus, hundreds of civilians were still streaming out of destroyed towns, carrying scant belongings in bags and bundles. / AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA (Photo credit should read LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Syrian regime, rebels reach evacuation deal

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Night from hell for doctors in Eastern Ghouta

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No End in Sight for Eastern Ghouta

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Voices from Syria's Eastern Ghouta

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Ghouta: Hell on Earth

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Activist describes crisis in Eastern Ghouta

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Members of a Syrian civil defence team rescue a man following a reported regime air strike in the rebel-held town of Hamouria, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on February 21, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / ABDULMONAM EASSA (Photo credit should read ABDULMONAM EASSA/AFP/Getty Images)

Watch citizens fleeing underground in Syria

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Eastern Ghouta's 15-year-old 'war reporter'

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A Syrian woman and children run for cover amid the rubble of buildings following government bombing in the rebel-held town of Hamouria, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 19, 2018.
Heavy Syrian bombardment killed 44 civilians in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, as regime forces appeared to prepare for an imminent ground assault. / AFP PHOTO / ABDULMONAM EASSA (Photo credit should read ABDULMONAM EASSA/AFP/Getty Images)

Eastern Ghouta suffers deadliest day in 3 years

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