Fighting increases across Syria as last of U.N. monitors leave

Friday, August 24, 2012

BEIRUT -- Syrian troops backed by tanks and helicopters broke into a Damascus suburb Thursday following two days of shelling and intense clashes as part of a widening offensive by President Bashar Assad's forces to seize control of parts of the capital and surrounding areas from rebel fighters, activists said.

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