(MENAFN) Heavy fighting gripped a flashpoint region near Syria's capital on Sunday, leaving nine civilians dead and threatening a nationwide truce designed to pave the way towards peace talks.
In detail, Syrian government troops lost ground to the Islamic State (IS) group near the key Deir Ezzor military airport. The escalating violence augurs ill for peace negotiations in Kazakhstan later this month.
In the Wadi Barada region northwest of Damascus, fresh clashes broke out between rebel groups and advancing government forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, threatening to disrupt planned repairs to a pumping station that supplies most of the capital's water, a war monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the army and the allied Lebanese militia Hezbollah had made some gains against rebels in the Wadi Barada area. Heavy fighting reached the outskirts of the Ain al-Fija town, where the waterworks is located, the British-based war monitor reported.
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