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At least 50 people died when suicide bombers blew up their cars in the capital, according to media sources [EPA]

People continue to take to the streets across Syria despite the government's crackdown on protests. Reports say thousands have been killed since the demonstrations started in March 2011, on both sides.

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1 hour 29 min ago - Syria

The Syrian National Council has released a statement on the reported siege of Homs:

Since early this morning, the neighborhood of Baba Amr (Homs) has been under a tight siege and the threat of military invasion by an estimated 4,000 soldiers. This is in addition to the nonstop bombing of Homs that has been going on for days.

Today, we face a real threat of genocide and crimes against humanity in Homs, whose residents are calling for help and warning of the imminent danger they face if the Arab League does not immediately send its observers there.

Therefore, the Syrian National Council demands that the Arab League observers go to Homs immediately, specifically to the besieged neighborhoods, to fulfill their stated mission. In addition, we demand that the observers go to all the hot spots in Syria, or withdraw and conclude their mission if it is not possible for them to do so.

We hold the Arab League and the International Community accountable for the massacres and bloodshed committed by the regime in Syria. The last massacre was committed in Idlib, where hundreds of lives were lost before the entire world, on the eve of the arrival of the Arab League observers. The massacre was followed the next day by the terrorist bombings in Kafarsooseh, for which we have no doubt the regime is responsible.

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2 hours 33 sec ago - Syria

More unconfirmed reports of the siege of Homs, coming from activists on Twitter:

free_deiry#BabaAmr is being shelled right now by Mortar and Howitzer cannons #Syria #HomsSun Dec 25 08:34:41

BentBenghaziA young boy from #Homs #Syria is shot in the leg and neck while at home http://t.co/Zvv4gUlj #mar15 #assadcrimesSun Dec 25 08:33:16

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4 hours 42 min ago - Syria

Ambulances carry the coffins of people killed in the attacks [REUTERS]

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4 hours 46 min ago - Syria

Funerals at the Umayyad Mosque for the people killed at security sites on Friday in the car bomb attacks [REUTERS]

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13 hours 29 min ago - Syria

 

Residents in Bab Amr in the Syrian city of Homs are calling for western intervention, as activists say the area has come under renewed attack from forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports.

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17 hours 47 min ago - Syria

 

Residents in the city of Homs are calling for western intervention, as activists say the area has come under renewed attack from forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.

Residents told Al Jazeera on Saturday that tanks were shelling the city. Activists in the Bab Amr district said they had been under seige for the last 48 hours:

There is heavy bombardments going on since early morning and there is non stop firing so far. So many people are been killed, we have counted so far 16 people have been killed and we've got so many injured, so many houses have been destroyed and we don't know what to do. Everywhere from every side we can see tanks very clearly and different types of heavy machine guns have been used since morning."

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22 hours 42 min ago - Syria

AFP has retracted its report that the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood claimed yesterday's Damascus bombings, as the group spokesman says the statement was on a fake regime-made website.

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23 hours 4 min ago - Syria

ZeinakhodrAljaz#syria Muslim brotherhood told me claim of responsibility for #Damascus bombings was posted on a website "created by Syria govt"Sat Dec 24 11:21:22

ZeinakhodrAljaz#Syria #Muslim #brotherhood denies reports that it claimed responsibility for #Damascus bombings, #AssadSat Dec 24 11:03:01

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23 hours 47 min ago - Syria

According to the AFP news agency, Syria's Muslim Brotherhood has claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings in Damascus that killed 44 people.

"One of our victorious Sunni brigades was able to target the state security building in Kfar Suseh in the heart of the Omayyad capital Damascus in a successful operation carried out by four of our kamikazes drawn from the best of our glorious men, leaving many dead and wounded from the ranks of the Assad gangs," it said on its official website. [AFP]

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1 day 40 min ago - Syria

A Syrian musician raps in support of the uprising and his nostelgia for his hometown of Homs:

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