Battles Intensify In Syria's Strategic City Of Homs -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Syrian troops fought with rebels in Homs on Monday in a battle seen as crucial to the government's attempts to drive a wedge between opposition-held areas and establish links between the capital and President Bashar al-Assad's coastal strongholds.
Assad's forces have been on the offensive in the central Syrian city for ten days, hitting rebel-held neighborhoods with air strikes, mortar bombs and tanks.
Rebels control much of northern Syria but have been on the back foot against Assad's army further south since it retook Qusair last month, a town near the border with Lebanon, where victory marked a change in the government's fortunes.
Homs, 140 km (90 miles) north of Damascus, lies at a strategic crossing linking the capital with army bases in coastal regions controlled by Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam that has dominated majority Sunni Syria since the 1960s.
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More News On The Battle For The Syrian City Of Homs
Syria official says forces take rebel area of Homs -- AP
Syrian forces continue to push rebels in offensive in central Homs -- Deustche Welle
Syrian army advances into rebel district -- SKY News
Assad forces in onslaught on Homs -- Al Jazeera
Syria army 'advances in rebel-held district of Homs' -- Ma'an News Agency
Syrian military intensifies campaign against rebels in Homs -- Digital Journal
Syria's Homs ravaged, UN warns of food shortages -- Deutsche Welle
Syrian opposition offers Homs ceasefire to Assad for Ramadan - SNC President -- RT
Two thirds of Syria’s Homs rebel area destroyed, NGO group says -- Al Arabiya
Syrian rebels offer Assad Ramadan truce in Homs -- Jerusalem Post/Reuters
Syrian rebels offer Assad truce in Homs during Ramadan -- The Independent
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