A senior Russian diplomat signaled Friday that Moscow will again use its veto power at the United Nations to block any resolution aimed at ousting Syrian President Bashar Assad from power ... AMMAN (Reuters) - Tanks amassed outside opposition neighborhoods in Homs on Friday as Alawite-led forces bombarded the Syrian city for the fifth day and residents expected a major push to subdue the centre of revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's rule ... AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian tanks massed outside opposition neighborhoods in Homs on Friday as President Bashar al-Assad's forces bombarded the city for the fifth day and residents expected a major push to subdue the centre of revolt against his rule ... AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 28 people were killed in two bomb attacks in Syria's second city Aleppo on Friday while in besieged Homs, opposition neighborhoods endured another day of bombardment by President Bashar al-Assad's troops ... AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Bomb attacks killed at least 28 people in Syria's second city Aleppo on Friday, while Homs endured another day of shelling and a firefight broke out in Damascus, the nearest violence to the centre of the capital in an 11-month uprising ... Idlib is a city in waiting, waiting for what it believes has become inevitable - the Assad attack ... Syrian forces renew heavy bombardment in Homs; at least 20 people killed ... | 
