Hadi Abdullah

Syrian troops battered Homs on Tuesday in some of the heaviest shelling for days in the flashpoint city, a monitoring group said, as the international community warned of a humanitarian disaster.

Syrian troops battered Homs on Tuesday in some of the heaviest shelling of the central flashpoint city for days, a monitoring group said.

Syrian forces pressed a relentless assault on the protest city of Homs Wednesday, with dozens of civilians reported killed, hours after President Bashar al-Assad said he was committed to ending the bloodshed.