Reports on military operations have been coming in from Banias, Latakia, Idlib, Homs, Hama, Deyr-ez-Zora and Daraa, Damascus and Aleppo. The government suppressed several thousands of militants two weeks ago. Opposition activists and their supporters in Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia failed to change the social mood. No mass desertions to the Free Syrian Army have taken place, ITAR-TASS reports.
State forces have captured Salah ed-Din, Sukkari and Sahur and are pushing militants out of Hamdania, Mashhad, Ansari, Seif ad-Dail and Zabria.
The opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has about 20 anti-missile complexes provided by Turkey.
Field commanders say that they have taken the Salihin road under control. 400 militants were killed in Handarat. 30 jeeps and pickup trucks with machine guns were destroyed.
80-year old human rights activist Heisam al-Milhem has became the head of the Council of Syrian Revolutionary Guards, based in Istanbul. The new government of Syria is planned to comprise 31 figures.
The Syrian government demanded the UN Security Council to stop Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia from arming opposition forces. Foreign interference ruins agreements reached during the visit of UN envoy Kofi Annan to Damascus on July 8.
The government supports the peace plan of Annan, consisting of six points and the communiqué signed in Geneva on June 30.
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visited Egypt and said that the US and its allies are trying to force Assad to resign. Negotiations were organized with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi.
