Syrian government forces backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah took almost full control of a town just outside Damascus from Islamist rebels on Thursday, a pro-opposition monitoring group said, a blow to the rebels who had held it for more than a year. Syrian state television also reported big progress for government forces in the town of Mleiha, which lies on the edge of the eastern Ghouta region near Damascus airport and has been surrounded by President Bashar al-Assad's forces. Mleiha, about 7 km (4 miles) from the heart of Damascus, has formed a base for rebel fighters who have used it as a position from which to bombard the capital with mortars.
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