Bashar al-Assad issued an amnesty for all crimes

Violence raged across war-torn Syria on Tuesday, a watchdog said, eroding hopes of a ceasefire for this week's Muslim Eid al-Adha as proposed by UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, the AFP reports.

"Neither the rebels nor the regime appear to want a ceasefire, and the daily death toll continues to exceed 100," Syrian Observatory of Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

The two sides to the conflict have given a wary welcome to Brahimi's proposal but neither has committed itself to the plan, which envisages a ceasefire during the four-day Eid holiday that starts on Friday.

President Bashar al-Assad in a pre-Eid gesture issued an amnesty on Tuesday for all crimes committed in Syria "up until today," state television said.