Security forces are also continuing their efforts to crush anti-government protests in the central city of Homs, Deraa and the coastal town of Baniyas.
On Sunday, there were reports from Homs of gunfire, arrests and deaths, including that of a 12-year-old boy.
State media also said 10 labourers had been killed in an ambush by gunmen.
Foreign journalists have not been allowed to enter Syria, so the reports are difficult to verify independently.
Communications cutOn Monday morning, reports from activist websites said that the suburb of Muadhamiya, to the west of Damascus, was cut off by troops.
Heavy gunfire could be heard and clouds of black smoke were hanging over the area. Electricity and telephone lines were cut off.
Meanwhile, more security forces were reported to be moving into the central city of Homs, north of Damascus, where troops backed by tanks have been raiding houses and arresting people since Saturday night.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday that the areas of Bab Sebaa, Bab Amro and Tal al-Sour were under "total siege", and that hundreds had been arrested. The number of casualties was unknown, it added.
Some 15 people were said to have been shot dead in Homs on Friday after taking part in demonstrations following Friday prayers.
One Homs resident, who wished to remain anonymous, told the BBC: "We cannot stay for a long time faced with these guns - somebody from your end, from other nations, from Turkey, should [do] something."
"This government should protect [its people], not kill them."
The army said operations against "armed terrorists" were continuing.
Six soldiers and police had been killed and others wounded on Sunday in Homs, Baniyas and villages around the southern city of Deraa, it added.
Activists said hundreds were arrested in Baniyas on Sunday, including a 10-year-old boy. On Saturday, soldiers shot dead four women taking part in a small all-women demonstration near the city, they added.
In Deraa, which has been under military occupation for two weeks and where scores of protesters have been killed, residents were allowed out for a few hours to buy supplies before a curfew was imposed.
A witness also told the Reuters news agency that security forces had killed two protesters on Sunday night in the eastern town of Deir al-Zor.
Anti-government protests were held in Homs on Friday after prayersMeanwhile, Syrian state TV showed pictures of a minibus in which 10 Syrian workers coming home from Lebanon were said to have died when it was ambushed near Homs by gunmen early on Sunday morning.
And the prominent dissident Riad Seif, who is suffering from prostate cancer, was charged with staging a protest without a permit.
The BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut says demonstrations and protest vigils have been reported in many parts of the country as the crackdown on dissent continues.
Activists say hundreds have been arrested, but information about casualties is sketchy because communications are largely cut off, our correspondent adds.
The Syrian human rights group, Sawasiah, believes more than 800 people have been killed since pro-democracy protests began in March, including 220 killed in an army assault on Deraa. The US has said the crackdown is "deplorable" and pledged a "strong international response".
The government disputes the civilian toll and says about 100 soldiers have been killed.
The unrest poses the most serious challenge to President Bashar al-Assad since he succeeded his father, Hafez, in 2000.
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A mobile phone snapshot, reportedly taken in Qamishli on 29 April, shows protesters carrying banners written in Arabic and Kurdish demanding democracy.
This footage, which the BBC cannot verify, seems to show demonstrators in Midan, central Damascus, on Friday afternoon. A source in Damascus says he could see a lot of security and police officers in the main areas of Damascus after protests began after Friday prayers finished.
This unverified video seems to show a peaceful protest in Talbisah. Moments into the footage, tanks fire on unarmed civilians. Wyre Davis reports.
A soldier walks past men in civilian clothes lying on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs in this still photo taken from an amateur video.
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