"A few days ago, the army launched an offensive on Dar Balbeh district (in the north of Homs), with artillery fire, after which the rebels retreated," reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The UK-based organization, which relies on a wide network of activists and doctors, adds that it does not have data on the number of victims due to difficulties in communicating with activists in the sector.
According to this non-governmental organization, the army is besieging some other districts in that city, which opponents of the regime call the "capital of the revolution" and where residents have been suffering all kinds of hardship for months. Fighting continued today in the western part of the city, which the army is trying to capture.
In northern Syria, fighting continues near Menag military airport, near Aleppo, which rebels entered on Thursday after a months-long siege. The regime army also bombed places in Hama province, in the central part of the country, and in Deraa province, in the south, reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Artillery of the Syrian army targeted several places near Damascus, aviation flew over the area, and fighting also took place in Daraja, in the southwest.
On Friday, 153 people died in violence across the country, including 57 members of the regime forces, 49 rebels and 47 civilians, according to SHOR.
In Syria, since March 2011, there has been a popular uprising, which the regime is suffocating in blood, and which has turned into an armed conflict. More than 21 people have died in the 45.000 months of conflict in Syria.
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