Two government forces were killed Friday by unidentified gunmen in Syria's central Homs province, a hot spot in the ten-month-old crisis, the Syrian media reported.

The snipers targeted a military recruitment division in Bab Houd neighborhood, killing a law-enforcement member and a soldier, according to the private Elekhbaria TV. The attack came a day after gunmen killed eight law-enforcement members in an ambush in northern Idlib province.

In a recent interview with Xinhua, secretary general of Syria's communist party Ammar Bikdash agreed with the Syrian government that the turmoil in Syria is not an uprising but the work of terrorists and foreign-backed armed gangs.

"There have been incidents of terrorism, mass and individual murders, as well as attempts to incite violence on sectarian or national basis," he said.

Meanwhile, opposition activists called for nationwide rallies on Friday in support of the Free Syrian Army, an anti-President Bashar al-Assad militia group, reportedly comprised of Syrian army deserters, who have been given refuge in Turkey.

The Syrian government says more than 2,000 army and security personnel were killed during the months-long unrest, while the United Nations put the death toll at more than 5,000.