Assad forces try to bomb Homs into submission
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Angus MacSwan AMMAN | Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:27am EST AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad‘s forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs on Wednesday, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more than 80 people, including two Western journalists. The barrages marked an intensification of a nearly three-week offensive to crush resistance in Homs, one of the…
U.S., French journalists killed in Syria
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Erika Solomon AMMAN/BEIRUT | Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:26am EST AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) – American correspondent Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday when rockets fired by government forces hit the house they were staying in, opposition activists and witnesses said. At least two other journalists and possibly more were wounded in the attack, the…
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Assad seeks to bomb Homs into submission, alarms world
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Erika Solomon AMMAN | Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:57am EST AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad‘s forces, trying to hammer the city of Homs into submission, on Wednesday killed 19 more people including two Western journalists in an onslaught that has caused an international outcry for intervention to end the bloodshed. Hundreds of people have been killed in daily bombardments of Homs by Assad‘s…
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Four killed, dozens wounded in Afghan Koran burning
By Mirwais Harooni and Hamid Shalizi KABUL | Wed Feb 22, 2012 8:09am EST KABUL (Reuters) – Four people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests in Afghanistan which flared for a second day on Wednesday in several cities over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam’s holy book, at NATO‘s main base in the country, officials said. The American Embassy said its staff were in “lockdown” and…
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Iran defiant as UN nuclear talks fail
By Fredrik Dahl and Parisa Hafezi VIENNA/TEHRAN | Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:31am EST VIENNA/TEHRAN (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog ended its latest mission to Iran after talks on Tehran’s suspected secret atomic weapons research failed, a setback likely to increase the risk of confrontation with the West. In a defiant response, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran‘s nuclear policies would not change despite mounting international pressure against…