Fighting between Syrian troops and Islamic State group fighters in southern neighborhoods of the capital Damascus left dozens of people dead or wounded today, according to a war monitor and Syrian state media, as government forces pressed their offensive to capture last parts of the city out of state control.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government bombardment killed 17 people, including seven children and two women in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk mostly controlled by IS.
Syrian state media reported that IS shelling of the government-held neighborhood of Qadam in Damascus killed two children and wounded eight others.
State news agency SANA said government forces and their allies pushed deeper into the nearby Hajar al-Aswad neighbourhood that is controlled by IS.
SANA added that the army offensive aims to "completely eradicate the terrorists from south Damascus."
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