Heavy fighting between rebels and government troops erupted overnight in the capital of an oil producing province in eastern Syria, residents and activists said on Sunday, the latest escalation of violence in a tribal area bordering Iraq. Rebels armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked tank positions in the eastern sector of the city of Deir al-Zor on the Euphrates river.

The fighting broke out when insurgents attacked Syrian road blocks securing the town.
Kofi Annan is expected to announce that Syria is not complying with the ceasefire on Tuesday but that progress is being made. The US, Turkey, France and other Allies are calling for a Chapter 7 resolution which is being resisted strongly by Russia and China.
With the unlikelihood that such a resolution can be passed; the US and Allies may declare a “Humanitarian” emergency and intervene, or Turkey way do so on the basis of a refugee problem, or a border incident.
Jordanian news site Ahbar Baladna reports that western spy satellites have recently spotted movements of Syrian heavy missile launchers northward and southward, toward Syria’s borders with Turkey and Israel.
The site says hundreds of high-caliber launchers are being moved, and that these could only be long range Scud missile launchers. Syria has threatened in the past that in the event of foreign military intervention on its soil, it will not hesitate to fire missiles at Israel and Turkey in order to take Israel down with them. Turkish and French officials said ten days ago they were mulling a potential military intervention in Syria.
Israel is in the process of mobilizing some 22 battalions of reserves to prepare for the possibility of violence.