Latest: Fighting continues in Damascus suburb as relief workers struggle to distribute aid

Latest: Relief workers used a brief lull in Damascus' embattled rebel-held suburbs to try and deliver remaining aid left over from a mission earlier in the week but were interrupted by renewed violence shorty after their team entered eastern Ghouta.

Update 3.45pm: Relief workers used a brief lull in Damascus' embattled rebel-held suburbs to try and deliver remaining aid left over from a mission earlier in the week but were interrupted by renewed violence shorty after their team entered eastern Ghouta.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said a convoy of 13 lorries with supplies, including food parcels for 12,000 people, went into Douma, the largest and most populated town in the rebel-held eastern Ghouta, on the edge of the Syrian capital, earlier in the day.