Slideshow: Syria uprising (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/48244949/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=48244949&wbSection=news)(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss-120719-syria-uprising/ss-121025-syria-uprising-08-tease-849a.photoblog600.jpg) (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/48244949/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=48244949&wbSection=news) A look back at the violence that has overtaken the countryLaunch slideshowBy NBC News staff and wire servicesDamascus residents reported artillery barrages by Syrian troops on Thursday, hours before the scheduled start of a cease-fire to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, according to Reuters.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) Residents said the shelling by troops stationed on a mountain overlooking the Syrian capital targeted Hajar al-Aswad, a poor neighborhood inhabited by refugees from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
"Consecutive artillery volleys from Qasioun shook my home," said Omar, an engineer who lives in al-Muhajereen district on a foothill of the mountain.
A Free Syrian Army commander had earlier given qualified backing to the truce, proposed by U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, but he demanded that President Bashar al-Assad free detainees. An Islamist group said it was not committed to the truce, due to start on Friday, but may halt operations if the army did.
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So immediately the muslim holiday is over, they will resume fire ehn.They are not serious