Shelling On Homs

• Syrian troops renew shelling of Homs; 38 killed

  Syrian government forces pounded areas in the central province of Homs on Sunday in a renewed push to regain control of rebel-held territories, and activists said at least 38 people were killed in shelling there over the past 24 hours.

• Syrian forces shell rebels, Red Cross kept waiting

  Syrian forces pounded the city of Rastan with shells on Sunday after routing rebel fighters from nearby Homs, monitors said, as the Red Cross awaited the go-ahead to evacuate wounded from the battered region.

• Syrian crisis deepens, army keeps up shelling

  Warnings from Syrian activists of a humanitarian catastrophe in Homs grew more desperate on Thursday as government forces resumed shelling an opposition stronghold in the restive central city, where hundreds have died in a week's long siege.

• West slams Syria over killing of journalists

  Western powers condemned Syria on Wednesday for the killing of two foreign journalists, with Washington slamming the regime's "shameless brutality" and Paris demanding an immediate end to attacks. American war correspondent Marie Colvin of Britain's Sunday Times and freelance French photojournalist Remi Ochlik were killed in the city of Homs in wha...

• Syria's Homs in heaviest shelling for days: monitor

  Forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad battered Homs on Tuesday in some of the heaviest shelling for days in the central flashpoint city, a monitoring group said.

• Syrian troops push back in fight on Damascus edges

  Syrian forces heavily shelled the restive city of Homs on Monday, and troops pushed back dissident troops from some suburbs on the outskirts of Damascus in an offensive trying to regain control of the capital's eastern doorstep, activists said.