Bloody fighting was reported across the Homs Province, with rebel mouthpiece the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claiming 69 people killed across Syria, and both rebels and military pushing hard for strategically important cities on the outskirts of Homs.
Though the exact situation on the ground is next to impossible to divine given the lack of media present, the rebels had reportedly dislodged the regime from several key bases around the cities.
The regime, for its part, seems to be relying more and more on artillery in their attempts to dislodge the rebels from these new positions, taken up since they abandoned the ceasefire in earnest two weeks ago. So far they don’t seem to have had much success.
The use of artillery is dangerous with the fighting happening so close to civilian populations, and the rebels have shown themselves eager to claim the large civilian death tolls in such cases, even if in some cases the UN monitors’ reports don’t bear out their allegations.
Look people: Balkan war, division of Yugoslavia was a gift by the US democratic party to Oil companies where Bill Clinton economy was endorsed and not – lasting jobs were created. Capitalism needs to create economic turmoil every 10 − 15 years to reestablish itself, forcing its new agendas to the new government no matter what and who they are. In 2008 Barack Hussein Obama was elected to do the same as Bill Clinton, providing a gift to the establishment, that gift is Africa and more wars in Middle east, Libya war was and is about Africa, Syria war is about middle east. Yet for economy to grow and being able to create jobs beside uncertainty in Libya and Syria nothing els has been provided by Obama thus far, reelecting this man means more wars, expansion of privet mercenaries in Africa and more wars in Africa. Syrian “rebele” has lost this war and they will lose any other wars created or bet by Hillary Clinton and Saudis imbeciles.
I guess I have a few obvious questions for the UN, US policy makers, the Syrian "rebels", and those interested in toppling Assad:
1. How many people have died in Afghanistan in the past 15 months?
2. How does the Taliban differ from the Syrian "rebels"?
3. What is deficient and/or insufficient with the "reforms"–which include "elections"–including the recent parliamentary elections held in Syria–proposed by the Assad regeim?
4. Is the end game for Homs to secede from Syria, or are the "rebels" thought to seriously have the abilty to take over the entire nation of Syria?
5. How many have been killed by drone strikes in the past 15 months? Civilians?
6. Is the following a "war crime"? If not, why not? http://collateralmurder.com/
7. What justifies the double standards here?
They only gain because the UN is protecting these US-Terrorists !
What a fraud UN! The US-and NATO memebrs of the UN monitors will surely distribute their GPS handies to the rebels as radio locators for later targeted NATO bombing of Syrian infrastructure.
They and actually CIA spys within OSCE did the same in the war against NATO.