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Syrian jets, tanks pound city of Homs

Syrian forces pounded the western city of Homs Saturday with jets and tanks, sustaining fire with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, activists told CNN.

Senh: How do civilians fight against that? Without international intervention, Syrians have no chance.

 

More than 40 dead in surge of violence in Syria

More than 40 dead in surge of violence in Syria

More than 30 civilians and as many as a dozen soldiers were killed Monday in an upsurge of violence in Syria, most of them in the central city of Homs that is rapidly emerging as the epicenter of armed resistance to the government led by President Bashar al-Assad.

 

Protests erupt across Syria in defiance of crackdown in Hama

Protests erupt across Syria in defiance of crackdown in Hama

Tens of thousands of demonstrators take to the streets outside Damascus, in Homs and elsewhere in response to the lethal military assaults centered in the besieged city of Hama. The growing civilian toll intensifies international condemnation of the Syrian regime.

 

Syria braces as anti-regime protests erupt and bloodshed continues

Syria plunged deeper into chaos and bloodshed Friday as adamant pro-democracy protesters took to the streets across the country in cities and towns including Homs, Lattakia, Amouda, Izram, Dara, Der Ezzor and Qamishli in mass protests that mark what protestors have called "Friday of Tribes."

 

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