By the CNN Wire Staff
CNN, 30 Sep 2012 – Hours after world leaders painted a grim picture of the Syrian war, a new wave of attacks erupted Sunday. The bloody conflict rages — and a solution continues to be elusive.
Here is the latest in the Syrian uprising.
Shelling and deaths
City dwellers fled from a Damascus neighborhood Sunday as mortar shells rained down in an intense attack by government forces, the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria said.
At least 100 people died in the violence, the group said.
The LCC reported the discovery of 30 bodies in a Damascus basement and another eight at a military hospital in Damascus. In another incident at a hospital in a Damascus suburb, government forces stormed the building and seized the wounded, the LCC said.
The group also said regime forces executed a family in Deir Ezzor, including two men, a woman and four children.
Syrian state media reported that “armed terrorist groups … perpetrated a massacre against” a village in Homs. They did not specify the number of people killed.
Government forces also targeted “terrorists and their vehicles” in Aleppo, state media reported.
The government has consistently referred to anti-government forces as terrorists.
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Diplomatic efforts: Sympathy, but no answers
Diplomats attending the U.N. General Assembly worked the sidelines last week in New York to seek solutions to the Syrian crisis.
“What has the international community done to stop this carnage?” Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu asked. “Literally nothing. We have yet to see a single effective action to save innocent lives.”
Turkey is providing shelter for 90,000 Syrian refugees.
Germany also slammed the U.N. Security Council for failure to act. The failure has led Western and Arab nations, including the United States and Turkey, to form a “Friends of Syria” initiative.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced $30 million for humanitarian aid and $15 million for communications gear and training.
Background
The Syrian conflict broke out in March 2011 after unarmed protesters, inspired by the success of popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, took to the streets demanding political reform.
The movement devolved into an armed conflict after a brutal and continuing crackdown by government forces.
Since the unrest began, more than 30,000 people have died, the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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CNN’s Hamdi Alkhshali contributed to this report.