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02-24-2012, 03:05 PM
HOMS, Syria, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Syrian forces struck Homs for a 20th day Thursday as regime ally Russia backed a call for an emergency cease-fire a day after more than 80 people were killed.

Syria asks foreign journalists to report to government

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's information ministry said foreign journalists illegally inside the country should report to the government on Tuesday, hours after bombardment of a rebel neighborhood in Homs killed two foreign journalists smuggled into Syria. "The ministry asks all foreign journalists that have entered Syria illegally to go to the nearest centre for immigration and passports to ...

A burning building in the Baba Amr neighborhood of the Syrian city of Homs, allegedly during the bombardment of the city, in a picture released by Local Coordination Committees in Syria on February 22. Syrian forces launched a huge bombardment of rebel districts of Homs on Thursday, defying a world outcry over the killing of two Western journalists and a citizen reporter