A Syrian air force general has reportedly been assassinated in Damascus as air strikes pounded rebel enclaves and fighting raged in the capital.
State television claimed that Abdullah Mahmud al-Khalidi was killed by "armed terrorist groups" in the Rukn al-Din district of Damascus.
His death was "part of their campaign to target national personalities and scientists", the report claimed but it gave no further details.
The general was shot dead on Monday evening as he left a friend's house, a security source told the AFP news agency.
A Syrian refugee camp near the border with Turkey News of the killing came after regime warplanes launched their heaviest air strikes to date, with more than 60 raids on Monday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The watchdog said raids on Tuesday had hit rebel-held areas in the suburbs of Damascus and the town of Maaret al-Numan. There was also fighting in Homs, Aleppo and the southern province of Daraa.
Three children were among four civilians killed in Maarat al-Numan, which is a key army supply route between Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo.
Regime forces have been battling with rebels for weeks as they attempt to secure control of the area.
There were also clashes between rebel forces and troops backed by Palestinian fighters at the Yarmuk Palestinian camp near the capital.
There were no initial reports of casualties, although activists on the ground reported violent fighting.
Opposition forces capturing a tank near Aleppo The latest developments came the day after the four-day Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Adha, during which it is believed that more than 500 people died.
There are more than half a million Palestinian refugees living in Syria - around 148,000 in Yarmuk - and their leadership is largely supportive of President Bashar al Assad's regime.
A proposed ceasefire over the Eid holiday collapsed amid opposition car bombings and government air strikes.
Sky News has learnt that a lack of foreign intervention has led to rebel fighters becoming more radicalised, making their own IED's and smuggling weapons across the Turkish border.
The UN-Arab League peace envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, is due in China later to try and revive efforts to stop the violence.
On a visit to Moscow on Monday he described the situation as "bad and getting worse".
Mr Brahimi is expected to make new proposals for a peace deal at the UN Security Council in November. All the plans put forward so far have been vetoed by Russia and China.
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