BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian fighter jets bombed the Palestinian Yarmouk camp in Damascus on Sunday, killing at least 25 people sheltering in a mosque in an area where Syrian rebels have been trying to advance into the capital, opposition activists said.
The attack was part of a month-old campaign by President Bashar al-Assad's forces to eject rebels fighting to overthrow him from positions hemming in Damascus. Yarmouk, on the southern fringes of the Syrian capital, falls within a swathe of territory running from the east to southwest of the city from where rebels hope to storm into the main redoubt of Assad.
In Paris, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said he believed the Syrian ruler would fall soon. "I think the end is nearing for Bashar al-Assad," Fabius told RFI radio.
He described the attack on Yarmouk as scandalous. "You have to ask yourself whether President Assad is not trying to enflame the region (through it)," the minister said.
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