{"id":3545,"date":"2014-04-19T06:46:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T06:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2014-04-19T06:46:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T06:46:33","slug":"syria-army-advances-in-besieged-homs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/04\/19\/3545\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria army advances in besieged Homs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/syria-tank.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"303\" height=\"200\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Syrian armed forces have made advances around the Old City of Homs, where some 1,200 rebels are dug in and under regime siege.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The push by President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s troops came as a bomb exploded outside a mosque after the weekly Muslim prayers in a government-held district of the city on Friday, killing 14 people, according to state TV.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Syrian television said the bombing occurred as worshippers were leaving the Bilal al-Habshi mosque on the edge of Akrama neighbourhood.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Meanwhile, the army, which began a broad offensive against rebel-held parts of the central city on Tuesday, was progressing daily by &#8220;capturing buildings and tightening the noose around the terrorist groups&#8221;, a security source told the AFP news agency.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Syrian authorities refer to all those seeking to oust Assad as &#8220;terrorists&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The source said that regime forces had seized a church in the Old City.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, confirmed the army had &#8220;advanced,&#8221; adding that troops were shelling the Bab Hood and Wadi al-Sayeh districts.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But he said the army had so far only captured buildings rather than whole streets and fighting was continuing.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;There are street battles, but the loyalist forces are not advancing much because the buildings are mined,&#8221; said the head of the monitoring group, which collects its information from a network of medics on the ground and opposition activists.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The remaining rebel fighters in Homs &#8220;know the area very well and refuse to leave. They want to fight until the end,&#8221; he added.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Thursday, members of the UN Security Council expressed concern over the plight of Syrian civilians caught in the renewed fighting in Homs.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They called for implementation of a resolution passed in February urging immediate access of humanitarian assistance in all parts of Syria.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In February, a UN-led operation evacuated around half of the 3,000 people trapped under army siege in rebel-held parts of Homs city.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">About 1,200 fighters and some 180 civilians are believed to remain in the Old City and surrounding districts.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Thursday, UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi urged the Syrian government and opposition to resume discussions about lifting the siege on Homs.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;We urge all the parties to return to the negotiating table and complete the deal which was on the verge of being signed,&#8221; he said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;It is a matter of deep regret that negotiations were brutally stopped and violence is now rife again when a comprehensive agreement seemed close at hand,&#8221; Brahimi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<em><strong> Aljazeera<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian armed forces have made advances around the Old City of Homs, where some 1,200 rebels are dug in and under regime siege.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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