Date: Mar 19, 2018 Source: The Daily Star Syrian army gives Harasta rebels till 3pm to withdraw Reuters BEIRUT: Syrian state TV said the Syrian army had given rebels in the Harasta pocket of opposition-held eastern Ghouta till 3pm local time Sunday to withdraw, citing its own correspondent. In a month-long assault, pro-Syrian government forces have marched into much of eastern Ghouta, the last major insurgent bastion around Damascus. They have splintered it into three besieged zones, the smallest of which is the Harasta pocket. Syria's Assad visits army positions in eastern Ghouta: SANA BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Assad Sunday visited army positions in Syria's eastern Ghouta, the president's Telegram account said. "In the line of fire in eastern Ghouta ... President Assad with heroes of the Syrian Arab army," a caption said next to photographs of Assad in a crowd of men in military clothing, some perched on top of tanks. The photographs were taken in a street lined with damaged building fronts with a couple of parked tanks.