Two people were
killed when
mortar fire hit the grounds of the
Damascus opera House in the Syrian capital,
state media said on Sunday. Government forces are also battling rebels in Damascus' outskirts including the eastern suburb of Mleiha, which saw heavy fighting on Saturday. "Two citizens were martyred and eight others wounded ... by mortars fired by terrorists at the
opera house in the Abbassin area in Damascus," a report on
state news agency SANA said on Sunday. President Bashar al-Assad's forces are in control of central
Damascus but rebels have been able to launch
mortar and rocket attacks into the city's centre, sometimes hitting heavily-secured upscale districts and embassy grounds.
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