Heavy clashes on edges of Syria’s Ghouta: monitor

Beirut (AFP) – Syrian regime forces were engaged in heavy fighting with rebels in southern areas of the opposition enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Sunday, a monitor said, the day after a UN call for a ceasefire.

The clashes on the edges of Eastern Ghouta killed at least 13 members of pro-regime forces and six fighters from the Jaish al-Islam rebel group, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.