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Activists: Syrian troops storm northwestern town
Reuters 24 Mar 2012
  BEIRUT — Syrian troops backed by tanks stormed a northwestern town on Saturday in the latest of a...
Syria's Baba Amr is deserted, Red Cross says
AP 08 Mar 2012
BEIRUT — The UN humanitarian chief toured the shattered Syrian district of Baba Amr on Wednesday but found most...
Damaged shops are seen along an empty street in Homs February 20, 2012. Syrian government forces killed at least 16 people and wounded some 340 on Tuesday when they unleashed a heavy artillery barrage on a rebel-held district of the city of Homs, activists said
Syria's displaced blocked at Lebanon border
AFP 06 Mar 2012
Abu Ali says he has only God to thank today for sparing his life and that of his wife and five kids as they fled the...
Q&A: A primer on Syria’s nearly year-old uprising and crackdown
AP 03 Mar 2012
After weeks of bloody siege, Syrian troops have moved into one of the most restive neighborhoods of Homs, one of the...
Syrian rebels quit besieged Homs stronghold
Reuters 01 Mar 2012
BEIRUT — Defeated Syrian rebels left their shattered stronghold in Homs on Thursday after a bloody 26-day army...
Syria civilian death toll 'well over 7,500'
Reuters 28 Feb 2012
AMMAN — Syrian forces have killed more than 7,500 civilians since a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad...
Syria approves new constitution amid bloodshed
Reuters 27 Feb 2012
AMMAN — Syrian artillery pounded rebel-held areas of Homs Monday as President Bashar al-Assad's government...
An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube shows smoke and flames rising from reported shelling by regime forces in the Baba Amr neighborhood in the central city of Homs, February 25, 2012. Syrian troops shelled the rebel stronghold in Homs for the 22nd straight day, after a pause allowed relief workers to evacuate some civilians, monitors said.
Syrian security forces kill 50 civilians, activists say
Egypt Independent
Agencies
25 Feb 2012
On Saturday regime forces killed 50 civilians in Syria, shelling a rebel stronghold for the 22nd consecutive day...
Homs crisis deepens, Syrian army keeps up shelling
AP 23 Feb 2012
BEIRUT — Warnings from Syrian activists of a humanitarian catastrophe in Homs grew more desperate Thursday as...
Marie Colvin (left) and Remi Ochlik (right) were killed in Homs, Syria, Wednesday, opposition activists and a French government official said. Arthur Edwards/ AFP-Getty Images
Two Western journalists among 74 killed in Syria
AP 22 Feb 2012
BEIRUT — Syrian gunners pounded an opposition stronghold Wednesday where the last dispatches from a veteran...