Fierce fighting batters Syria's strategic city of Homs
(Reuters) - Syrian state forces backed by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah hammered the central city of Homs on Friday, activists said, sparking concern from United Nations officials over thousands of civilians trapped in the city.
President Bashar al-Assad's forces have been using heavy air raids and artillery strikes to push their offensive around the capital and the strategically located Homs, which spans central Syria's eastern and western international borders.
Near Damascus, a well-known activist known as Mohammed Moaz died of injuries from shelling in a rebel-held suburb on Friday. Read More
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US and Russia plan conference to ‘save Syria’
Europe likely to stay on sidelines when U.S. ships arms to Syria rebels
McClatchy - BERLIN — When the Obama administration begins arming Syrian rebels through the CIA, something news reports say will happen within the next month, it probably it will be acting without help from its European allies.
Despite the end of the European Union’s embargo on supplying weapons to the rebels, which expired May 30, experts see little will or appetite among European nations for adding more weapons to the bloody Syrian civil war. Not even the British, who were pressing just weeks ago for arming the rebels, are likely to do so. Read More
'Russia said pulling army personnel from Syria'
Jerusalem Post - Moscow pulls out all military staff from embattled Syria, strategic Mediterranean port, AFP cites Russian daily as saying.
Russia has pulled out all its army personnel from Syria due to the rising security threat in the embattled country, AFP cited Russian daily Vedomosti as saying Wednesday.
The reported withdrawal also included military staff from the Mediterranean naval port in Tartus.
Russia is a longtime ally and arms supplier to Syrian President Bashar Assad, whose forces have been fighting rebels trying to overthrow him in a civil war. Read More
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