Troops seize Damascus suburbs back from rebels

AMMAN (Reuters) - Troops seized eastern suburbs of Damascus from rebels late on Sunday, opposition activists said, after two days of fighting only a few kilometers from the centre of power of President Bashar al-Assad. "The Free Syrian Army has made a tactical withdrawal. Regime forces have re-occupied the suburbs and started making house-to-house arrests," an activist named Kamal said by phone from the eastern al-Ghouta area on the edge of the capital. A spokesman for the Free Syrian Army of defectors fighting Assad's forces appeared to confirm that account. ...