The Terrible Price Paid By Homs -- The Australian
THEY call it the widows' basement. Crammed amid makeshift beds and scattered belongings are frightened women and children trapped in the horror of Homs, the Syrian city shaken by two weeks of relentless bombardment.
Among the 300 huddling in this wood factory cellar in the besieged district of Baba Amr is 20-year-old Noor, who lost her husband and her home to the shells and rockets.
"Our house was hit by a rocket so 17 of us were staying in one room," she recalls as Mimi, her three-year-old daughter, and Mohamed, her five-year-old son, cling to her abaya.
"We had had nothing but sugar and water for two days and my husband went to try to find food." It was the last time she saw Maziad, 30, who had worked in a mobile phone repair shop. "He was torn to pieces by a mortar shell."
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Assad extends Damascus crackdown -- Financial Times
Syria: Bashar al-Assad's 'ghost gangs' that haunt Damascus -- The Telegraph
Syrian security forces increase pressure on Damascus protesters -- The Guardian
Protesters move within sight of Assad's palace -- Sydney Morning Herald
Syria refugees tell of civilian misery in besieged Homs -- BBC
Homs a bleeding wound as medical aid dire -- CNN
Syria: Assad's forces tighten grip on Homs -- The Telegraph
Syria: Is Assad preparing ground assault on Homs? -- BBC
Judge and prosecutor assassinated in Syria in a sign of widening armed resistance -- Washington Post/AP
Syrian officials killed as protests continue -- Al Jazeera
2 judicial officials slain in Syria -- Yahoo News/AP
Egypt withdraws envoy to Syria, as Damascus increasingly isolated in Arab world -- Winnipeg Free Press/AP
Egypt recalls ambassador from Syria as violence rages -- BBC
Egypt recalls its ambassador to Syria amid persisting violence -- Haaretz
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