Unrest remains in Syria although the country has accepted a six-point peace plan presented by Kofi Annan, joint special envoy of the UN and the Arab League (AL) for Syria. Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said that “armed terrorist groups” assassinated a brigadier in northern Aleppo province Wednesday and a colonel at Joubar countryside near the capital Damascus. The killings were part of their assassination plots targeting senior army and security personnel.In central Hama province, a 30-year-old civilian was found killed on the same day after being kidnapped by unidentified gunmen for three months, said SANA, adding that marks of torture was seen on the man’s body. On the opposition side, the Local Coordination Committees (LCC) said that overnight protests erupted Wednesday in several Syrian cities, including suburbs of Damascus, southern Daraa and northern Aleppo provinces.Activist groups reported that many people were killed, but the reports have not been independently verified. Some Western media reported that Syrian forces, backed by tanks, attacked rebel bastions at the central town of Qalaat al-Madiq in Hama province and other areas on Wednesday.The Syrian army were also trying to storm other rebel positions across the country in a bid to claim control of key rebel strongholds. The United Nations said Tuesday the number of people killed since the unrest began in March last year has exceeded 9,000.
