Army tightens grip on capital as the battle for control of the country escalates.
Syrian troops commanded by the brother of President Bashar alAssad and backed by helicopter gunships have driven rebel fighters out of a district of Damascus a week after the
insurgents launched a major assault on the capital.
Members of the Syrian army's Fourth Division under the command of Maher al-Assad executed several young men on the weekend during the operation to regain control of the northern Damascus district of Barzeh, a witness and activists said.
Government forces have launched a determined fightback since rebels brought their battle to overthrow Assad to the capital and killed four of the president's closest associates in a bomb attack on a meeting of senior security officials last Wednesday.
Activists told Al Jazeera that the military was sending reinforcements into the Syrian capital.
The army has set up new checkpoints on one of the main roads into the city, they said.
In a further escalation of a conflict rapidly becoming a civil war, fighting raged around the intelligence headquarters in Syria's biggest city, Aleppo, and in Deir al-Zor in the east. Read more here
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