A Syrian military source said on Monday that the army had recaptured all the positions it had lost on Sunday.
Intense clashes took place in Damascus early on Monday as the army counter-attacked rebels who had advanced in the northeast of the Syrian capital on Sunday, a war monitor said.
The most recent fighting has focused on the areas around Qaboun and Barza, which the army has isolated from the rest of the main rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta and the eastern districts of Damascus.
Rebels still hold a large, heavily populated enclave in the Eastern Ghouta district of farms and towns to the east of the capital, as well as some Damascus districts in the south, east and northeast of the city.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his army, along with allied Russian, Iranian and Shi`ite militia forces, have put rebels on the back foot with a steady succession of military victories over the past 18 months, including around Damascus.
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