Syrian rebels say they have targeted President Bashar al-Assad's motorcade near his home in Damascus, but state television has shown him unharmed and the government denies there was an attack.

A spokesman for the rebel group Liwa al-Islam, one of two that claimed responsibility for attacks in Assad's neighbourhood on Thursday, told Al Jazeera they were sure they had hit the convoy with rockets.

Al Jazeera's Nisreen el-Shamayleh reports from Beirut.