The latest report of violence came in the wake of the highest-level defector yet from President Bashar Assad’s regime – his ambassador to Iraq.
Syrian state television reported that three security personnel had been killed in fighting in Tremseh and reported a massacre, but blamed it on “armed terrorist groups”.
The latest official to flee, Ambassador Nawaf Fares, announced that he was joining the revolution, asserting that only force will drive Assad from power.
More than 200 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in shelling and other attacks by regime forces in Syria‘s central Homs province, activists reported. It was impossible to confirm the reports immediately, in part
due to the state ban on foreign and independent journalists, but if confirmed, the killings would represent the single biggest massacre in 16 months of the Syrianrevolt. [photo linkiesta.it]