Syria Dispatch: Inside The Battle For Homs, Centre Of Resistance To Bashar al-Assad -- The TelegraphThe battle for Syria: angry deserters, desperate night-time battles and children shot down while playing in the street.
A heavy-machine gun was still clattering away in the pitch black as the five soldiers described how they had just deserted from the Syrian Army to join the revolution. A sixth had not made it.
"We heard him screaming," said Mahmoud Ali, one of the defecting soldiers, "but we couldn't go back. There were too many troops pouring in."
They had fought their way out of their base, running under fire to reach the Bab Amr quarter of Homs. We watched tracer fire arcing back and forth over the buildings for more than an hour. Now, people were coming out into the street to embrace them, the newest members of the Free Syrian Army.
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More News On the Unrest In Syria
Homs, Syria: Inside the City of Fear -- The Daily Beast/Newsweek
11 civilians killed in Syria: rights group -- AFP
Deserters kill 8 soldiers in Syria: activists -- AFP
New Reports of Fierce Fighting in Syria, Sanctions Loom -- Voice of America
Syrian military vows to 'cut every evil hand' of attackers -- The Guardian
Feature: Military personnel pay last honor to fallen comrades in Syria's Homs -- Xinhuanet
Syria slowly inches towards civil war -- Paul Wood, BBC
Assad Must Go -- Max Boot, Weekly Standard
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