Clashes reported across Syria

Syrian troops and helicopters are clashing with rebels in the central town of Rastan, activists said today.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Co-ordination Committees also reported government shelling in the central provinces of Homs and Hama, the southern region of Daraa, the northern province of Aleppo, suburbs of the capital Damascus and Deir el-Zour in the east.