[An Nahar] Syrian regime forces resumed shelling parts of Damascus on Monday as security forces carried out arrests of students in housing attached to Damascus University, a monitoring group said."There is shelling of the areas of Maadaniya (south) and Jubar (east) by regime forces," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, reporting sniper fire and casualties in the city's northern Barzeh district as well.
The Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmuk in the south of the city also came under rocket fire overnight, the group said.
Elsewhere in the capital, the Observatory said, regime forces carried out "a campaign of arrests of a number of students from the University City student housing in the Mazzeh district" of western Damascus.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman, speaking to Agence France Presse by telephone, said "intelligence forces this morning entered University City," which is home to Damascus University students from different areas.
The group also reported five people were killed and around 10 others wounded by "heavy shelling on areas in the city of Irbin," in Damascus province, east of the capital.
Regime forces have launched a broad campaign in the region around the capital in recent months, in a bid to unseat rebels from rear bases they are using to attack Damascus.
In central Hama province, opposition fighters gained control of the Tel Hamamiyat checkpoint on the eastern outskirts of town of Karnaz, "following violent clashes that began at around midnight on Sunday," the Observatory said.
"A number of military vehicles were damaged, members of the regime forces were killed and weapons and ammunition were captured," the group said.
Regime forces responded with artillery fire targeting the local towns of Karnaz and Latamna, and air raids on the town of Kfar Zita.
The Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a network of activists and medical sources on the ground to compile its figures, said a total of 126 people were killed across Syria on Sunday, according to a final toll.