Syrian govt re-controls key town

A building damaged in a clash between Syrian government forces and rebels in the town of Hajjira in the Damascus countryside on Nov 13, 2013. The Syrian government claimed to have control of the town on Wednesday.[Photo/Xinhua]

The attack is part of ongoing mortar attacks that have been staged on daily bases in several Syrian cities, most notably in Damascus.

Earlier on Wednesday, at least two people were killed in a renewed attack against the Damascus' districts of Bab Touma, and Zablatani.

People in Damascus have become fed up with the indiscriminate shelling by the rebels, who claimed that they targeted security and military positions, but their mortars frequently landed in residential areas.

The rebels alleged that shelling Damascus came as a response to the tight siege by the government troops.

The Lebanese resistance party "Hezbollah" accused Israel Wednesday of using all its powers to incite a Western attack against Syria.

Hezbollah Chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who made a rare public appearance in the Beirut neighborhood of Rouweiss, said that Israel used all its power lately to prepare for an attack on Syria.

Nasrallah accused some Arab countries of acting similarly with Israel by rejecting any political solution in Syria and an international agreement with Iran.

Geneva II Conference had been slated for late November, but it was reportedly to be postponed amid Western efforts to persuade the Syria-based political opposition groups to take part in it.