A mortar attack on the Damascus Opera House has killed two people as regime forces press a campaign against rebels on the Syrian capital's outskirts.
The country's official news agency, SANA, reported on Sunday that two people had been killed and five others wounded when a mortar round hit the opera house, which is close to key government and military buildings on Umayyad Square in Damascus.
Mortar fire also wounded three people in the Abbasids neighbourhood of northeast Damascus, SANA said, blaming the attacks on "terrorists" - the regime term for those fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad.
On Saturday, mortar rounds struck near the Russian embassy, according to the British-based group, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Rebel assaults on Damascus have wounded at least 22 people in recent days, as government forces step up a campaign to crush insurgents in its eastern suburbs, the Observatory said.
