#Syria - Assad Tanks Bomb City All Night - 200 Dead - 500 Wounded in Khalidiya District - Homs

Syria Army T-72 Tanks Bomb the Homs City District of Al Khalidiya all night tonight and there are reportedly over 200 killed and 500 wounded so far. This is the biggest one day massacre of the Syria Democratic Uprising.
The bombing began tonight when 50 of Assad's soldiers defected and ran away today to the district of Khalidiya and in revenge the Assad Army began bombing the whole district of the City, killing hundreds of people and the attack is still ongoing as we write this.
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Syria Under Fire 4-2-2012
Posted by abeer on February 4th, 2012
Homs
Relayed via al-Khaldieh resident: More than 200 martyrs have fallen and the toll is rising due to the constant bombardment of the town. The LCC are working on verifying these numbers.

Security forces and shabiha stormed al-Amal Hospital where more than 50 martyers and 100 wounded civilians lie. People are afraid that everyone will be killed or kidnapped.

The regime's army continues to shell Khaldiyeh neighborhood by tanks and heavy machine-guns. Military reinforcements also arrived to the neighborhood

Reports on some buildings in Enshaat neighborhood burning from the mortars shelling by the regime's army

Idlib: Jabal Zawiya: Heavy artillery shelling and intense gunfire by security forces in Abdaita Village followed by sounds of gunfire in Ihsam Village.

Damascus Suburbs: Violent and random shelling by tanks and mortars from all directions at Zabadany and Madaya which resulted in setting fires in some buildings

Syria
Demonstration in most of the Syrian cities in solidarity with Homs and Zabadany

Homs
Heavy shelling by missles and heavy machine guns in Qusour by regime forces from the Air Force Intelligence branch.

Two explosions were heard in the Al-Malaab neighborhood. There are reports that the regime army is targeting the minaret of the Omar Bin Al-Khattab mosque where the smoke has been seen

Daraa
Tal Shehab
The city is witnessing violent clashes, for the first time, between the FSA and the regime's security force and shabiha, who are located at the local police station. Regime security operatives are responding by firing randomly at FSA forces and civilan homes

Hama
Gunfire in areas along the road to Aleppo, Qusour, and west Mashtal, to coincide with demonstrations in all areas in solidarity with the cities and areas under fire..

Damascus Suburbs
Domair
Heavy gunfire is reported, along with chants of Allahu Akbar in solidarity with the cities being shelled.

Published: February 4, 2012 12:01 AM EST
Updated: February 3, 2012 11:46 PM EST

Activists say 23 dead in Syria violence

ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT -- Deadly clashes erupted between government troops and rebels in suburbs of the Syrian capital and villages in the south Friday, sparking fighting that killed at least 23 people, including nine soldiers, activists said.

President Bashar Assad is trying to crush an 11-month-old uprising with a sweeping crackdown that has so far claimed thousands of lives, but neither the government nor the protesters are backing down.

Clashes between the military and an increasingly bold and armed opposition means much of the country is now engulfed in violence.

The fighting spread to new areas Friday, with army dissidents reportedly seizing a security post in the rural town of Andan in the northwestern province of Aleppo, marking the first time rebels have struck so close to the powerful merchant city of Aleppo. The reports could not be independently confirmed.

With the violence in Syria growing increasingly chaotic, diplomatic efforts to find a solution have increased.

In Washington, a senior State Department official said Friday the U.S. is "cautiously optimistic" of strong support for a new U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the bloodshed in Syria and calling for a political transition in the country.

The official said a draft resolution proposed late Thursday by Morocco would likely clear a Security Council vote later Friday or over the weekend, as it appeared to meet Russian concerns.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov while flying to Munich for a security conference that both are attending, and they agreed to have their diplomatic staff continue work on a U.N. draft resolution on Syria.

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