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Syria launches fresh assaults to crush rebellion

New UN envoy 'scared' by task as violence kills 62

AFP, Aleppo
Syrian army forces launched arrest raids and clashed with rebels in the southwestern belt of Damascus yesterday in what activists say is a renewed bid to crush the insurgency in the capital " once and for all".
Combat helicopters and tanks also fired on rebel-held areas in the battered northern city of Aleppo, activists and an AFP journalist said, as the government pressed on with its campaign against fighters seeking to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
The fresh violence erupted a day after new international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi admitted he was "scared" of the enormity of the task he faces to try to end the escalating conflict, now in its 18 th month.
Brahimi, who takes over formally from former UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan next month, held talks with
UN leaders on Friday, saying the Syrian people" will be our first masters".
"We will consider their interests above and before anyone else. We will try to help as much as we can, we will not spare any effort," added Brahimi, a veteran Algerian diplomat who brokered a 1989 accord that ended Lebanon's civil war.
The head of the UN observer team, General Babacar Gaye, left Damascus yesterday after the mission officially ended in the face of the intensifying violence and Security Council divisions.
Damascus said this week it was ready to work with Brahimi and voiced hope he could pave the way for "national dialogue" while also suggesting it was ready to discuss Assad's exit as part of any negotiated solution.
On the ground, troops fired mortar rounds at several areas on the southern outskirts of Damascus following a week
of ferocious attacks on rebel positions, intended to deal a crushing blow to insurgents in the capital, activists said.
In the town of Daraya, just south of Damascus, 15 people were killed in the attacks including three children and two women, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding to at death toll of over 100 people in the past four days.
The army claimed to have retaken most of Damascus in late July after some two weeks of intense fighting across the capital's southern belt.
Most rebel Free Syrian Army fighters were forced out into the nearby countryside, but have since then resumed some hit-and-run operations, according to activists.
The Observatory said Friday that August was already the deadliest single month of the conflict with more than 4,000 people killed, from an overall death toll of around 24,500.