BEIRUT -- Syrian troops shelled a rebel-held suburb of the capital Damascus Tuesday, killing at least 11 people including women and children as government forces forge ahead with offensives against rebel-held areas around the country, activists said. The shelling on Kfar Batna appeared to be part of a concerted government push against contested and rebel-held areas around the capital. In recent months, troops have captured several suburbs of the capital, Damascus, as President Bashar Assad regime's looks to secure its seat of power. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead in Tuesday's shelling include two women and a child. Mohammed Saeed, an activist based in the...
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