Syria's Al-Assad regime tanks are seen in a road to the city of Homs (File Photo: AP)
Syrian troops shelled two neighbourhoods of the flashpoint central city of Homs on Saturday, even as a hard-won UN-backed ceasefire entered its third day, monitors said.
There was no immediate word on any casualties from the hour-long morning bombardment of the city's Jurat Al-Shayah and Al-Qarabis neighbourhoods, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Baba Amr district of Homs became a symbol of the protest movement against President Bashar Al-Assad's regime launched in March last year when it came under a devastating month-long pounding before being overrun by government forces at the beginning of last month.
The UN Security Council was to vote later on Saturday on a Western-drafted resolution allowing a ceasefire observer mission in Syria even though Russia's support remained in doubt.
The United States called for the vote after a second day of wrangling with Russia over security guarantees for the first 30 unarmed military monitors that UN-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan wants in Syria early next week.
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