Warplanes have pounded rebel-held areas of Homs in the Syrian city's heaviest onslaught for months, monitors say, as Turkey reportedly returned cross-border shellfire for the second time this week.
The clashes came on Friday as the UN condemned the Syrian army's deadly shelling of a Turkish border town on Wednesday, and "terrorist" car bombs that killed almost 50 people in the war-torn country's second city Aleppo on the same day.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombardment of Khaldiyeh district was the most intense of Homs in five months, and the first time the regime has deployed fighter jets against the city.

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