Mortar attacks and air raids in two major cities in Syria
killed at least 17 people, activists and government officials said on
Tuesday.
Battles across the country continued, with footage emerging online showing what were purported to be rocket and shelling attacks in the capital, Damascus and the province of Idlib.
Elsewhere in the country, three mortars slammed into a government-held district of Dablan, in Homs, before dawn on Tuesday, killing 10 people and wounding 26 others, a government official said.
On Monday, government troops captured Homs' strategic area of Khaldiyeh after a month long battle, bringing Assad's regime closer to its goal of capturing all of Syria's third largest city.
Much territory further north of Idlib, and the northeast along the borders with Turkey and Iraq, has been under rebel control since last summer, when the opposition forces seized large swaths of land and several neighbourhoods in Aleppo, Syria's largest city.
Battles across the country continued, with footage emerging online showing what were purported to be rocket and shelling attacks in the capital, Damascus and the province of Idlib.
Elsewhere in the country, three mortars slammed into a government-held district of Dablan, in Homs, before dawn on Tuesday, killing 10 people and wounding 26 others, a government official said.
On Monday, government troops captured Homs' strategic area of Khaldiyeh after a month long battle, bringing Assad's regime closer to its goal of capturing all of Syria's third largest city.
Much territory further north of Idlib, and the northeast along the borders with Turkey and Iraq, has been under rebel control since last summer, when the opposition forces seized large swaths of land and several neighbourhoods in Aleppo, Syria's largest city.