A damaged car is pictured after a mortar shell hit a textile factory at al-Dweil'a neighbourhood in Damascus on Sunday November 3, 2013, causing a huge fire in the factory, but no one was hurt, state media said, in this handout released by Syria's national news agency SANA. REUTERS/SANA/Handout via Reuters
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian army and Shi'ite Muslim fighters attacked Sunni rebel areas in southern Damascus on Sunday in an offensive aimed at breaking resistance to President Bashar al-Assad around the capital, activists said.
Militia from Iran and Iraq and the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah, who overran two southern suburbs last month, are looking to build up their advances by capturing opposition districts closer to the centre of Damascus, the sources said.
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