NEW : Nearly 700 have died in past week , opposition group says . Comment: At least 30 people were killed in Syria on Saturday , including 12 in Homs , according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria , a network of opposition activists . Gen. Issa al-Kholi was a physician . Free Syrian Army officer says the regime could have killed the general . Violence rages in Homs , Daraa and the Damascus region .
NEW : Nearly 700 have died in past week , opposition group says . Comment: Gen. Issa al-Kholi was a physician . Free Syrian Army officer says the regime could have killed the general . Violence rages in Homs , Daraa and the Damascus region .