(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime army and its allies on Friday launched new attack to capture rebel-held pocket northeast the capital, as aerial and ground bombing extend on the eastern suburbs of Damascus.
Rebels of Barza Farms said they had thwarted the major attack, destroying two tanks and leaving dozen of regime army killed and wounded.
It has for weeks concentrated air strikes on Qaboun district, effectively ending a ceasefire that rebels in the area agreed with the Syrian army which had been in place since the end of 2013. Barza also agreed a full truce with the government in 2014.
The regime army on Monday gained control of a road that links the besieged districts of Barza, al-Qaboun and Tishrin near the Eastern Ghouta area of towns and farms that spreads out from the capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Barza, Qaboun and Tishrin area had already been isolated from the main rebel enclave in Eastern Ghouta, a region that has witnessed increasing violence since the beginning of the year.
The army and its allies are trying to force rebels to agree to truces similar to those that have led to the evacuation of thousands of opposition fighters to northern Syria from other besieged pockets.
Rebels of Barza Farms said they had thwarted the major attack, destroying two tanks and leaving dozen of regime army killed and wounded.
It has for weeks concentrated air strikes on Qaboun district, effectively ending a ceasefire that rebels in the area agreed with the Syrian army which had been in place since the end of 2013. Barza also agreed a full truce with the government in 2014.
The regime army on Monday gained control of a road that links the besieged districts of Barza, al-Qaboun and Tishrin near the Eastern Ghouta area of towns and farms that spreads out from the capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Barza, Qaboun and Tishrin area had already been isolated from the main rebel enclave in Eastern Ghouta, a region that has witnessed increasing violence since the beginning of the year.
The army and its allies are trying to force rebels to agree to truces similar to those that have led to the evacuation of thousands of opposition fighters to northern Syria from other besieged pockets.
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