11 people, including women and children, killed in Syria attacks

At least 11 people, including women and children, have been killed in the Syrian capital Damascus and the western province of Homs as violence rages on in the Arab nation, Press TV reports.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011. Many people, including large numbers of security forces and civilians have been killed in the turmoil.

On Sunday, a bomb targeting a car in the capital left its driver dead and two others injured. Several nearby vehicles were also damaged.

This comes after foreign-sponsored militants fighting against the Syrian government had killed at least 10 people in the province of Homs.

According to a report released by official SANA news agency on the same day, “Last night, terrorists committed a new massacre against peaceful citizens in the city of Tal Kalakh in the Homs countryside, storming the Burj neighborhood and killing a number of citizens, including women and children.”

“An official source said that the terrorist group stormed the Burj neighborhood and killed 10 people, most of them children and women, before one of the units from our armed forces intervened,” the report added.

Several international human rights organizations have accused foreign-sponsored militants of committing war crimes.

The Syrian government says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the militants are foreign nationals.

In an interview recently broadcast on German television, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the government did not start the conflict and the militant groups were the ones killing Syrian citizens and destroying the country’s infrastructure.