EghtesadOnline: Air strikes resumed on Sunday in a rebel-held valley near Damascus containing the Syrian capital's main water supply, a day after insurgents and the government failed to agree a plan to repair the springs knocked out of service two weeks ago.

EghtesadOnline: Terrorist groups have contaminated all the drinking water supply resources for the Syrian capital and the suburbs, Damascus Water Company said in an emergency press release on Saturday.

EghtesadOnline: Four million people in Damascus have been without safe drinking water supplies for more than a week after springs outside the Syrian capital were deliberately targeted, the United Nations said on Thursday.

EghtesadOnline: The Syrian army escalated aerial bombing of a rebel-held valley northwest of Damascus in an offensive begun last week to recapture the strategic area where a major spring provides most of the capital's water supplies, rebels and residents said on Tuesday.