Dozens of people were reported killed across Syria on the first day on the Muslim Eid a;-Fitr holiday, as clashes between the army and rebels continued.
Meanwhile, President Bashar al-Assad was shown on state television making his first appearance in public since a July bombing that killed four top security officials, attending prayers at a Damascus mosque on Sunday.
Syrians held prayers and staged demonstrations for Eid, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan for the second year under the shadow of a conflict the UN says has killed more than 17,000 people.
Six children, including four from the same extended family, were killed by shelling near their home in the rebel-held town of Maarat al-Numan in the northwestern province of Idlib, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
In other parts of the country, troops were also reported to have bombarded the besieged city of Rastan, in the central province of Homs, and the eastern city of Deir al-Zor.
The opposition Local Co-ordination Committees said 157 people were killed across the country, 51 of them in Deraa province and 47 in Damascus suburbs.
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