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Summary Syrian forces resume shelling on the opposition strongholds in the city of Homs.
Syrian forces pounded central districts of the flashpoint city of Homs on Sunday and rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad attacked a police station in the northern province of Aleppo, resident opposition activists and a rights group said.A resident reportedly said that government loyalists are using heavy machine guns to shoot into the area.Rami Abdelrahman, head of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said shells were being fired at a rate of one a minute.Abdelrahman said there had also been overnight clashes in rural Aleppo.Earlier, United Nation Security Council approved the resolution to send observer force to monitor the ceasefire on the request of UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan. The Syrian government declared they have halted the action against rebels in accordance with the deal on April 12.
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