MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A total of three civilians have been killed and 13 others injured in attacks in a neighborhood of the Syrian capital of Damascus, SANA news agency has reported Tuesday, citing a source at Damascus Police Command, adding that one of the attacks occurred in Al Shaghour neighborhood.
The armed groups reportedly fired mortar shells, inflicting injuries to civilians and damage to infrastructure.
Other attacks took place in the northwestern neighborhood of As Suwayda on Monday evening, the news agency reported. An armed group attacked a car on the road, leaving one person dead, while two other people were killed and several injured as a result of a roadside bomb blast, according to the news agency.
Over the past few months, shelling has intensified in the Syrian capital, with the latest taking place on November 4, when militants opened fire on the center of the Syrian capital Damascus with several shells exploding in the central Abbasid square, resulting in deaths of two civilians and shrapnel wounds of several others.
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According to the latest information provided by sources close to Astana talks on the Syrian settlement, southern Damascus may become a new de-escalation zone in Syria in addition to those already in place in Eastern Ghouta near Damascus, as well as the northwestern Idlib, Latakia, Hama and Aleppo and the north of the central Homs province, southern Daraa and Quneitra regions.
