The Red Cross has reached the city of Homs. Juan Cole retweeted the link for the video above, as “Friends of Syria” try to maneuver a way through this cricis, which will not be easy. A CBS News report on what’s happening in Syria is even worse, including a map of documented torture. Homs — [...]
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The Envoy - The bodies of American and French journalists killed in Syria were handed over to aid workers with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the besieged Syrian city of Homs Friday, a day after Syrian securi... Read Post
All war is terrible. But there is something particularly terrible about a city under siege. Think of Derry, Leningrad, Sarajevo. That’s been the fate of Homs in Syria since Spring 2011. It was there that reporter Marie Colvin was ki... Read Post