(Natsot - fighting)<br/> <br />Fierce fighting in the streets of Mleiha, near Damascus... Syrian state television says government forces are close to re-taking the town from Islamist rebels.<br/> <br />(Natsot - fighting)<br/> <br />Mleiha has been used as a base for the rebel fighters to bombard the capital with mortars in Syria's civil war.<br/> <br />Video posted to a social media website purports to show Syrian forces sweeping through the town.<br/> <br />It cannot be independently verified by Reuters.<br/> <br />Another video appears to show warplanes dropping bombs on targets decribed as the rebels' last points of resistance.<br/> <br />With help from Lebanon's Hezbollah, government forces have pushed the rebels back from around Damascus.<br/> <br />Yet more rebel-held territory has fallen to the group known as Islamic State.<br/> <br />This video purports to show clashes between Islamic State fighters and the Free Syrian Army in the city of Aleppo, the latest battle in a war that has lasted three years and<br/> <br />left more
