More deaths have been reported in Syria as the government's violent assault on anti-government protesters continues.

Most of the deaths occurred in the central Syrian city of Homs where at least at least three people died on Sunday. It is the fifth consecutive day in what anti-government activists say is an ongoing military campaign against the city, considered the center of opposition in the seven-month-long uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.

Sunday's deaths added to the scores who have been killed in Homs in recent weeks. They came on the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival and just days after the Assad government signed on to an Arab League peace plan in which the government agreed to end its violent crackdown against the uprising.

The head of the Arab League, Nabil al-Arabi, has deplored the violence and is warning of “catastrophic consequences” for the country and the region if the violence does not end.