14 rebels killed by Syrian army

The Syrian army Sunday killed 14 militants in an operation in the central province of Homs, pro-government radio Sham FM reported.

The army targeted rebels' positions in the town of Dar al-Kabira in Homs, and managed to destroy the rebels' arsenal in that area, the report said, Xinhua reported.

Earlier on Sunday, at least 11 people were killed and 20 others wounded in a fresh mortar attack launched by armed rebels in Salamieh town of Hama province, state media reported.

Some other media reports said the attack came just hours after the rebels detonated a car bomb at a government troops' checkpoint in the west of Salamieh.

A day earlier, at least four people were killed when a car bomb tore through the Thawra roundabout in Hama.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said four civilians were killed Sunday in an airstrike in Jalbeh village in Al-Raqqa province.

It also said the rebels Sunday targeted the Scientific Research Centre in Rashidi neighbourhood in Aleppo province with multiple rockets, but did not give details of losses.