WADI KHALED, Lebanon – As Western nations increasingly push to end the violence in Syria, dissidents on Tuesday said the killings are escalating in the city of Homs — a flash point for the uprising — where residents are fighting furiously to prevent their own annihilation.
Troops under President Bashar Assad continued on Tuesday to shell the Baba Amr district of Homs, Syria's third-largest city and an area that has been under siege for months. More than 300 people are believed to have died in Homs last weekend, said Walid Saffour, president of the Syrian Human Rights Committee in London.
