shelling attacks that have been killing civilians very close by in damascus our senior correspondent laura galatea of looks next at who the fighters control in the embattled on clay really are. east ghouta is not a nice place to live in surrounded as it is under siege a constant war zone within and without. islam the army of islam holds most of east ghouta as the name may imply these guys crusading for democracy and when they aren't busy killing each other they share power with nuestra while kiat in syria and the number of smaller groups . these are ruthless people in a cage civilians they truly put woman and the elderly in metal cages and hoisted them onto roofs where they left them and literal human shield made of civilians to protect themselves their fighters from strikes john kerry himself once called the rebels holding east ghouta a subgroup of isis and al-qaeda remember what the u.s. led coalition deeds to isis in mosul. what are they leveled and then ties city thousands of civilians dead yet they say there's no choice the terrorists were responsible by using human shields a sad fact of war