(MENAFN) Syrian government forces on Monday escalated their bombing campaign around Damascus, raining shells down on rebel territory and sending out a "bloody message" just days before renewed peace talks in Geneva.
Representatives from the opposition and of President Bashar al-Assad's government are to head to Switzerland on Thursday for another attempt to end their country's brutal six-year war.
The United Nations expressed alarm over the violence in the Damascus.
UN officials have received reports of civilian deaths and injuries from shelling in Qabun, Barzeh, Tishreen and western Harasta districts of the city, said UN spokesman Farhan Haq.
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