AFP, Beirut, 11 Nov 2012 – Syrian warplanes pounded an eastern town on the border with Iraq on Sunday as firefights raged around an army barracks in the northeastern town of Ras al-Ain near Turkey, a watchdog said.
Troops also launched a pre-dawn bombardment of rebel lines near Damascus, after 121 people were reported killed nationwide on Saturday.
Northeast of the capital, clashes erupted around Irbin as the army shelled the rebel stronghold and nearby Mesraba, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
In eastern Syria, the watchdog said, two civilians were killed in air raids on the town of Albu Kamal on the Iraqi border while Deir Ezzor city in the same province also came under tank fire.