Six days after the Arab League announced a plan to bring about negotiations and a ceasefire, violence against protesters reportedly continues across Syria.
Activists with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Co-ordination Committees say that at least two people have died today in Homs, while four were injured in Hama. The two cities, respectively Syria's third- and fourth-largest, previously have been the scenes of bloody crackdowns.
The government launched an assault on Homs, perhaps the country's most rebellious city, around the same time the Arab League announced that President Bashar al-Assad's regime had agreed to its plan. At least 110 people have died there, and armed opposition forces are reportedly present as well.