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Syrian government forces, bolstered by Lebanese and Iraqi Shiite Muslim militia, have made advances in recent days in fighting with rebels around the big cities of Damascus and Aleppo. Some of the key clashes have been close to the Lebanese border, where deadly twin suicide bombings this week hit the embassy of Shiite-ruled Iran, Syria's main regional ally, in what was widely seen as a revenge attack. A new offensive saw President Bashar al-Assad's troops retake key positions in the Qalamoun mountains northwest of Damascus this week, one of the last conduits from Lebanon for the arms his regime says they are receiving from Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Those gains followed the recapture of southern suburbs of Damascus that impeded the rebels' ability to carry out military action in the heart of the capital.
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