DOUMA, SYRIA ¨C It used to provide fresh food for the Syrian capital; now its hungry people are queuing for bread handouts from a truck.
For over a week now Syrian government flags have flown over Douma, the biggest town in the agricultural eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, since rebels there surrendered after a five year siege.
Those queueing said an alleged chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar Assad, which prompted Western airstrikes on Saturday, had driven them to give up ¡ª although Assad says there was no such attack.
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