AMMAN/BEIRUT — Syrian forces bombarded districts of Homs city yesterday in a campaign to crush a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, whose ally Russia said it would not support an Arab peace plan circulating at the United Nations.
Activists said seven people were killed in the latest attacks in a week-long government siege of Homs, which has been at the heart of the uprising which broke out 11 months ago.

Mohammed Hassan, an opposition campaigner in the western city, said a 55-year-old woman was among those killed by shellfire on the Bab Amro district.
The bloodshed followed Friday’s violence, when bombings targeting security bases killed at least 28 people in Aleppo and rebel fighters battled troops in a Damascus suburb after dark. — Reuters

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