The nearly one-year-old unrest in Syria continued unabated with violence nationwide on Friday, amid international pressures that so far have been all but conducive to solving the simmering tensions in the unrest-hit country.

On Friday, the Syrian army in the northern Idlib province thwarted an infiltration attempt by a group of armed men, who tried to sneak into Syria earlier in the day through Turkey, local media reported, adding that many of the gunmen were killed or injured as the rest were rounded up.

On the same day, a suicide bomber detonated himself at a checkpoint in Maarat al-Nouman region in Idlib, leaving two law- enforcement members injured. Meanwhile, a total of 15 explosive devices were dismantled Friday alone in Idlib, one of the hotbeds of armed uprising against the rule of Syrian President Bashar al- Assad, the local Addounia TV reported.

Also, in the eastern Deir al-Zour province, a civilian was killed and three government forces injured when an explosive device went off near a mosque, according to Addounia TV.

Whilst in the central unrest-torn Homs province, the Red Cross has on Friday entered the troubled neighborhood of Baba Amr to deliver humanitarian aids, following reports the previous day that the restive district was completely under the Syrian army control, after being spinning out of the government control for over three weeks.

Some Arab TV channels cited the armed rebels in Homs as announcing that they had made what they called a "tactical retreat " from Baba Amr due to shortage in weapons and deteriorating humanitarian situation caused by the Syrian army's siege and shelling on the neighborhood.

But the rebels were not at all discouraged, as, in Paris, Syria 's major opposition group, the Syrian National Council, declared Thursday that it would probably inaugurate a military representation in Turkey in an effort to provide the opponents with weapons.

As Damascus witnesses the growth of the opposition, it has been groaning under the mounting international pressures after a meeting on Thursday in Geneva during which the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution condemning "the continued widespread and systematic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms by the Syrian authorities."

The resolution, voted 37-3 in favor with three abstentions, held the Assad government as the primary cause of Syria's ongoing crisis.

Although Russia, China and Cuba voted against the resolution, saying it only lopsidedly condemned the authorities and would fuel fresh violence in Syria, the West is overtly gearing up its opposition and hostility against the current Syrian rulers following the setback earlier in the month at the UN Security Council to pass an anti-Assad resolution.

Syria has been gripped with domestic unrest since March of last year. The protests, started peacefully at first demanding modest reforms, have snowballed to the toppling of administration of Assad. Over the past several months, some protesters even took up arms to fight what they called "the bloody crackdown" on them.