83 killed in Syria, regime losses in Aleppo and Daraa

Syrian army soldiers patrolling a street in Buweida, in Syria's central Homs Syria's Local Coordination Committees (LCCs) said that 83 people, including five women and eight children were killed in the Syrian conflict on Sunday. In Damascus, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) targeted government forces and Hezbollah fighters the area of al-Marj, while in the northern city of Aleppo, rebels dropped a regime helicopter. The FSA also targeted government militias in the village of Fawa, while in Saria the FSA fended off an assault from government forces, killing several soldiers in the process. It also foiled an attack on Brigade 93 in Raqqa, destroying four vehicles.
On Sunday evening, the LCCs said that 15 people had been killed in Aleppo, 14 in Idlib, 12 in Damascus, nine in Raqqa, eight in Daraa, eight in Deir Ezzor, seven in Homs, five in Hama, two in Hasakah, two in Quneitra and one in Suwayda.
Government shelling was reported at 414 points, with air raids on 41 military locations. Explosive barrels were dropped on Khenez in Raqqa, the villages of Jebel Zawyeh in Idlib, Kafr Zeita in Hama, Shmoukh in Hasakah, Meier and Deir Hafer in Aleppo, as well as ground to ground rockets in Tel Reffa in Aleppo, cluster bombs in Kafr Zeita in Hama, artillery shelling in 132 points, rocket shelling in 121 points and mortar shelling in 112 points across the country. The FSA clashes with government forces in 160 points.
In Damascus and its outskirts, the FSA targeted government forces and Hezbollah fighters in Marj, and targeted the headquarters of the military police in Qaboun. In Aleppo, the FSA fired rockets at the government's stronghold in Kerm al-Jebel, in addition to dropping a helicopter in the Aleppo countryside, stopping a military convoy and a break-in attempt in Safereh.
Meanwhile, British Foreign Secretary William Hague called on Syria's regime to cease its "brutal" assault.
"It is clear that Assad is not interested in peace for Syria but rather is prepared to kill tens of thousands of innocent people and deprive millions more of humanitarian aid rather than work for a resolution of this conflict which has already killed too many," said Hague.
"I call upon the Assad regime to cease its brutal assault on Homs and to allow full humanitarian access to the country. The violence must end and those responsible must be held to account."
In Manama, EU foreign police chief Catherine Ashton and the foreign ministers of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia pledged to pool their efforts to help bring peace to Syria.
They underscored "the utmost urgency of finding a political settlement of the Syrian conflict" and vowed to "spare no efforts" to help convene a conference on Syria, which the US and Russia have been striving to hold in Geneva.
There was no mention of an oft-repeated demand by Gulf Arab powerbrokers Saudi Arabia and Qatar to arm the opposition.
But Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal insisted the EU should do so "immediately" while urging the international community to take steps "to ban the supply of weapons" to Damascus from its allies Iran and Russia.