A previously unknown armed Syrian Group calling itself the ‘ Syrian Revolutionaries – Aleppo Province ‘ is no longer committed to the nominal ceasefire in Syria.

The streets of northern Lebanon were blighted Saturday by gun battles between supporters and opponents of the neighbouring Syrian regime. The violence left at least eight people dead and 40 others wounded in the city of Tripoli. Thirty-one people were killed in Syria across Syria yesterday, largely by government forces, confirm the Local Co-ordination Committees, a network of anti-government groups called Syrian Revolutionaries  – Aleppo Province.

New rebel Syrian Group

In the past the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights-  a UK-based group resolved, that at least 80 soldiers had been killed in clashes with Free Syrian Army fighters in Damascus and Idlib province.

A fifteenth of pilgrims have been returned on May 22 in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo. Last week it was reported that the pilgrims were freed and had arrived in Turkey, but those informations were later denied.

A Reuters journalist told to the world there were the two sides fired machineguns and rocket-propelled grenades at each other. He also said that the army moved into the area with armoured vehicles in an attempt to quell the violence, but deffenitely did not open fire.

The neighbourhoods have long-standing grievances separate from the Syrian conflict but the Sunni-led uprising has led to strife among Lebanon’s divided population, especially in majority Sunni Tripoli, 70 km (43 miles) north of Beirut.

Free Syrian Army responsible for violence in Lebanon

International peace envoy Kofi Annan determined on Saturday last weekend that Syria was slipping into all-out war and that the entire region would huge suffer if the international community did not step up pressure on Assad. The announcement essentially formalises the existing situation whereby both sides have been conducting operations in the last weeks more or less as though the truce no longer existed, commended the BBC’s reporter Jim Muir in Beirut.

Meanwhile, the formation of a new opposition coalition – the Syrian Group Front – was announced at a news conference in Turkey.

The Syrian leader Hassan Nasrallah had said in a speech addressed to the kidnappers that his group would not change its position concerning the conflict in neighboring Syria. He has declaired that this kidnapping is aimed at putting pressure on political position in Syria.

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