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 .
NEW : Nearly 700 have died in past week , opposition group says . Slain Brig . 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 .