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  • 21
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    2012
    8:23am, EDT

    Syrian army shells Homs and Qusayr

    Ricardo Garcia Vilanova / AFP - Getty Images

    Anti-regime fighters and citizens take a man from a pick-up truck who was wounded during shelling by government forces in the city of Qusayr, southwest of Homs, Syria on June 21, 2012.

    The Syrian army was shelling central districts of Homs on Thursday, residents said, after rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad agreed to a temporary truce to allow aid access to the sick and wounded.

    Reports: West may offer Assad immunity if he gives up power

    More than 10 days of heavy fighting has left hundreds of civilians stuck in the old city of Homs, unable to leave the battlefield, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Wednesday.

    Qusayr, a rebel stronghold nearby, was surrounded by forces loyal to Assad who bombarded the town heavily as helicopters hovered overhead, a journalist in the area said.

    -- Reuters and Agence France Presse contributed to this report 

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    Damage and destruction litter a street in the battered city of Qusayr, southwest of Homs in western Syria, on June 20, 2012. The Red Cross said it will try to evacuate hundreds of civilians trapped by fierce fighting in and around the restive city of Homs, as violence killed dozens of people across Syria.

    Former National Security Adviser for President Carter, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, joins Morning Joe to discuss the latest in Egypt, the G20 summit in Mexico, China's relationship with Russia and the impact it could have on the U.S. and Syria.

     

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  • 12
    Jan
    2012
    3:22pm, EST

    Free Syrian Army gathers numbers and ammunition

    By Jonathan Woods, msnbc.com

    As violence continues to erupt in pockets across Syria, images of a new armed force are starting to emerge.

    Today we received photos of the Free Syrian Army in the town of Qusayr, close to the border with Lebanon. At least some of them are reported to be defected Syrian soldiers.

    Reuters

    A Syrian soldier who defected to join the Free Syrian Army carries a rocket-propelled grenade at an FSA base outside the town of Qusayr, Syria on January 8, 2012.

    Reuters

    Defected Syrian soldiers joined the Free Syrian Army modify a pickup truck to mount an anti-aircraft gun at their base outside the town of Qusayr on Jan. 11.

    Reuters

    Syrian soldiers who defected to join the Free Syrian Army pose for a photograph at an FSA base outside the town of Qusayr.

    Elsewhere, Syria's president turned up at a boisterous pro-government rally in Damascus Wednesday, whipping up his followers and again underscoring his view that the months of popular unrest in his nation are the result of a "conspiracy."

    "We will triumph over this conspiracy," Bashar al-Assad told a cheering, clapping and flag-waving throng, according to Reuters.

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    When you mess with your own people and keep doing it. Sooner or later you will be messing with someones family or extended family. Eye for eye and tooth for tooth. Time to pay your dues Assad.

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