Tuesday, February 21, 2012

HOMS...SYRIA...PICS....21/02/2012


Sandbags are piled at a street in Homs February 20, 2012. Syrian government forces killed at least 16 people and wounded some 340 on Tuesday when they unleashed a heavy artillery barrage on a rebel-held district of the city of Homs, activists said. Picture taken February 20, 2012.










A burnt car and piled rubbish are seen along a street inHoms February 20, 2012. Syrian government forces killed at least 16 people and wounded some 340 on Tuesday when they unleashed a heavy artillery barrage on a rebel-held district of the city of Homs, activists said. Picture taken February 20, 2012.







A general view shows the damaged Criminal Security building in the Syrian district of al-Khalidya in HomsFebruary 20, 2012. Syrian government forces killed at least 16 people and wounded some 340 on Tuesday when they unleashed a heavy artillery barrage on a rebel-held district of the city of Homs, activists said. Picture taken February 20, 2012.







In this Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 citizen journalism image provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syriaand accessed on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, a damaged home is seen from Syrian government forces shelling, at Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs province, Syria. An opposition group says several people have been killed in heavy shelling of a district in central Syria a day after the army sent reinforcements ahead of a possible ground assault.







In this Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 citizen journalism image provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syriaand accessed on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, a market is seen destroyed from Syrian government forces shelling, at Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs province, Syria. An opposition group says several people have been killed in heavy shelling of a district in central Syria a day after the army sent reinforcements ahead of a possible ground assault.







In this Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 citizen journalism image provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syriaand accessed on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, houses are seen destroyed from Syrian government forces shelling, at Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs province, Syria. An opposition group says several people have been killed in heavy shelling of a district in central Syria a day after the army sent reinforcements ahead of a possible ground assault.







A damaged armoured vehicle belonging to the Syrian army is seen in the Syrian district of al-Khalidya in HomsFebruary 20, 2012. Syrian government forces killed at least 16 people and wounded some 340 on Tuesday when they unleashed a heavy artillery barrage on a rebel-held district of the city of Homs, activists said. Picture taken February 20, 2012.







A damaged military vehicle belonging to the Syrian army is seen in the Syrian district of al-Khalidya in HomsFebruary 20, 2012. Syrian government forces killed at least 16 people and wounded some 340 on Tuesday when they unleashed a heavy artillery barrage on a rebel-held district of the city of Homs, activists said. Picture taken February 20, 2012.







A militant with the Free Syrian Army walks up a flight of stairs in the northwestern city of Idlib, on February 21, 2012. Syrian forces blitzed the flashpoint city of Homsand opened fire to disperse daring protesters in the capital, monitors said, as the Red Cross sought ways to deliver aid to afflicted areas.







A Free Syrian Army fighters stands guard in Idlib, northwestern Syria, near the Turkish border, on February 20, 2012. The Red Cross said it was in talks with the Syrian authorities and rebels to halt the violence so it can deliver aid amid calls to allow women and children out of the besieged city of Homs in central Syria.







Wounded Syrian men rest after receiving treatment at a hospital in Tripoli, northern Lebanon February 18, 2012. He arrived in Tripoli on Thursday after being wounded during attacks by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces on the Syrian cities of Homs and Qusair. Thousands of wounded Syrians dare not seek help at home because their bullet and shrapnel wounds would betray them to the police as protesters or insurgents. Some manage to make the short but risky trek to Lebanon for medical care: They sneak past army troops, navigate mined borders and withstand bitter winter cold.







Nada Bakri, Anthony Shadid's wife, lights a candle at a vigil for Shadid, at the American University of Beirut(AUB), February 21, 2012. New York Timescorrespondent Anthony Shadid, who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his coverage of the Iraq war and its aftermath, died while reporting in Syria on February 16 after an apparent asthma attack, the newspaper said. He was 43.























































































































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