Beirut: The Syrian government targeted a second town on Tuesday, widening shelling attacks on opposition strongholds, activists said.
The truce is part of an international plan to arrange talks between President Bashar Assad’s regime and those trying to overthrow him. An uprising against Assad erupted last year, but became increasingly violent in response to a regime crackdown, The Associated Press reported.
Regime compliance with the cease-fire has been partial, and the latest crackdown further lowered expectations that the key element of special envoy Kofi Annan’s plan can stick. Mortar shells struck the central city of Homs at a pace of one a minute Tuesday morning, said Rami Abdul-Rahman, the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group.
Annan, joint emissary for the U.N. and the Arab League, was briefing the Arab League in Qatar on the situation in Syria on Tuesday.
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