SYRIA'S air force has launched new raids on rebel-held towns east of Damascus a day after President Bashar al-Assad attended prayers at a Damascus mosque.
The army pounded opposition-held areas of battered Homs in central Syria, as it stepped up a campaign to reclaim areas of "the capital of the revolution", said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"Warplanes made several air strikes on towns and villages in the Eastern Ghouta region" near Damascus, said the Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a network of activists, doctors and lawyers across Syria for its reporting.
Eastern Ghouta is home to some of the rebel Free Syrian Army's best organised and fiercest groups.
Assad attended prayers at a Damascus mosque on Thursday in a rare public appearance to mark Prophet Mohammed's birthday.
Appearing in public for the first time since a rare speech on January 6, he was shown in a live broadcast, flanked by Grand Mufti Ahmad Hassoun, the highest Sunni religious authority in Syria, and the religious endowments minister.
In a fresh bid to find a solution to the bloody civil war, UN chief Ban Ki-moon appealed again to members of the Security Council to overcome their divisions.
And Syria's interior ministry told political opposition abroad wishing to participate in a national dialogue proposed by Assad they were "authorised" to return to the country.
Clashes pitting rebels against troops raged overnight on the edges of the Yarmuk refugee camp, which has seen frequent violence in the past few weeks, especially since two air raids in mid-December.
Once home to some 150,000 Palestinians, Yarmuk now also acts as a makeshift refuge for hundreds of Syrians fleeing violence elsewhere in the country.
"But it is no longer a safe place. Thousands of people have left the camp, Palestinians and Syrians, in search of another refuge," said Abu Omair, an activist from Damascus.
Friday's violence came a day after at least 98 people were killed across the country, among them 33 civilians, 26 soldiers and 39 rebel fighters, said the watchdog.
Meanwhile on Thursday, a jihadist suicide attacker killed at least eight military intelligence troops, said the Observatory.
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