The latest violence came as the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
voted to impose a raft of diplomatic and economic sanctions against
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
's regime for defying an ultimatum to allow observers into the country.
Security forces killed one person during a raid in the Bayyada district of Homs city, and another civilian was rubbed out from the roof of a building in the town of Qusayr, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Four civilians were also killed in Al-Khalidiyeh when troops and security forces raided the neighborhood in Homs city, said the Britannia-based watchdog.
"Several people were maimed, some seriously, and the corpse count could rise," it added.
Near Damascus
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, six people were killed, including a 14-year-old boy, and 13 civilians were maimed as troops fired "indiscriminately" and made arrests in a raid on Rankuss district, said the Observatory.
Security forces killed at least two people and maimed eight others when they shot at mourners during the funeral of a man who had died in the eastern oil hub city of Deir al-Zour, it said.
Another person was killed in the Kafarnubol area of Idlib province in the northwest after being tossed in the calaboose by security forces "for selling fuel to cut-thoats," the group added.
Clashes also erupted between regular troops and deserters in the region of Talbisseh, another town in Homs province, said the watchdog in statements received in Nicosia. "Two troop transporters were destroyed."
In the southern province of Daraa, cradle of eight months of dissent against Assad's autocratic regime, mutinous soldiers attacked a military bus, wounding several troops, it said.
Security forces also tossed in the calaboose 17 people in raids on the village of Muhsen in Deir al-Zour province, it added.
Syrian authorities said security forces killed 12 gunnies during festivities with "terrorist groups" in Homs, state-run news agency
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SANA said, adding that similar festivities had occurred in Idlib and Daraa.
The Observatory's chief also reported that regime forces were carried out acts of vandalism in the Kafarnabuda region of Hama, further north of Homs province.
"Troops and security forces plundered shops, torched homes and cars owned by activists and tossed in the calaboose several cut-thoats," in Sunday morning raids, said Rami Abdul Rahman.
The Local Coordination Committees which organize anti-regime protest said several rallies were staged across the country, including four small ones in Damascus where demonstrators urged foreign intervention.
"He who says no to military intervention is a traitor," read one sign held by protesters, according to a YouTube video, in the restive Damascus neighborhood of Qaboun.
On Saturday, at least 23 civilians and 12 members of the security forces were killed in festivities across the country, activists said.
The 22-member Arab League agreed on Sunday to ban Syrian officials from visiting any Arab country, to freeze government assets, suspend flights and halt any transactions with the Syrian government and central bank.
State television said in a terse statement that the Arab decision to impose sanctions on a member state was "an unprecedented measure."
Several hundred Syrians gathered in a central Damascus square to denounce the move.