BEIRUT: At least four people were killed in violence across Syria on Sunday, two of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Several districts of the central city of Homs came under heavy shelling and machinegun fire in an assault by government forces, which left one person dead in the Khalidiyeh neighbourhood, the Britain-based watchdog said.
Surveillance aircraft were seen flying over the city, where 12 civilians were killed in a bombardment by government forces on Saturday.
Elsewhere in Homs province, an activist was killed by shelling in the town of Qusayr, on the Lebanese-Syrian border.
And in the town of Talbisseh, casualties were reported in heavy shelling by government forces. The Observatory said that loyalist troops suffered losses when rebels seized several checkpoints in the town last week.
In the southern province of Daraa, at least two soldiers were killed in clashes with rebel fighters, which broke out at dawn near the village of Al-Sanmin, the watchdog said.
More than 13,500 people have been killed since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime erupted in March last year, according to the Observatory's figures.
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