Heavy fighting is raging here in the outskirts of Damascus, weeks into government efforts to recapture a strategic suburb, according to amateur videos uploaded to social media websites.<br/> <br />Reuters is unable to independently verify the content of the videos.<br/> <br />Here in Daraya, a suburb of the Syrian capital, shells and rockets are seen raining down on the residential area.<br/> <br />Daraya is one of a series of interconnected Sunni Muslim suburbs that ring Damascus, and have been at the forefront of the 21-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.<br/> <br />Another video uploaded to a social media website claimed to show a government bombing in Idlib Province.<br/> <br />Rebels have recently succeeded in taking several outlying towns and have also clashed with government troops near Damascus International Airport.<br/> <br />Assad's forces have largely relied on aerial and artillery bombardments rather than infantry throughout Syria's civil war.
