Beirut, City, Rabi'I 1, 1434, Jan 13, 2013, SPA - Activists say Al-Assad regime's fighter jets have bombed Damascus suburbs as part of a government offensive to dislodge its opposing fighters from strategic areas around the capital. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says warplanes carried out airstrikes Sunday on towns and villages around the capital, including Kfar Batna and Gesereen, while regime forces bombarded other neighborhoods with artillery and mortars. The Observatory also says regime troops are battling its opposing fighters in the suburb of Daraya, according to a report of the Associated Press. --SPA 14:17 LOCAL TIME 11:17 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/1068148