.- Syrian troops supported by armored vehicles entered today in residential areas in the city of Homs and other localities in the south as part of its campaign to stop the protests against the regime of Bashar Al Assad. The soldiers broke this morning in two districts of Homs, in the first raid on residential areas of the third largest city in Syria, denounced human rights activists.
After the entry of the military machine gun fire were heard and bombs in the city, home to one million people, according to witnesses quoted by Arab media. Syrian troops and eight tanks also entered the southern city of Tafas, near Dara, where the protests originated in the middle of last March to demand democratic reforms.
In Tafas, a city of 30 000 inhabitants, the houses cateaban troops to stop young opponents denounced area citizens. In Banias, a city of 50 000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast, telephone communications, electricity and drinking water were cut, according to Rami Abdel Rahman, president of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
'The city is isolated from the world and in the southern suburbs, a stronghold of militant protesters, no snipers on rooftops, "he said. Protests spread last Friday throughout the plains region of Hauran, a strategic agricultural region that borders Jordan on the south and the Golan Heights to the west.
The protesters are demanding political freedom, an end to corruption and the resignation of President Assad, who took power when his father died in 2000 after having ruled Syria for 30 years. The Syrian government responsible for the violence and protests' armed terrorist groups "operating in Dara, Banias, Homs and other parts of the country.
A human rights group has complained that security forces have killed at least 800 civilians during the seven weeks of popular revolt. 
After the entry of the military machine gun fire were heard and bombs in the city, home to one million people, according to witnesses quoted by Arab media. Syrian troops and eight tanks also entered the southern city of Tafas, near Dara, where the protests originated in the middle of last March to demand democratic reforms.
In Tafas, a city of 30 000 inhabitants, the houses cateaban troops to stop young opponents denounced area citizens. In Banias, a city of 50 000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast, telephone communications, electricity and drinking water were cut, according to Rami Abdel Rahman, president of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
'The city is isolated from the world and in the southern suburbs, a stronghold of militant protesters, no snipers on rooftops, "he said. Protests spread last Friday throughout the plains region of Hauran, a strategic agricultural region that borders Jordan on the south and the Golan Heights to the west.
The protesters are demanding political freedom, an end to corruption and the resignation of President Assad, who took power when his father died in 2000 after having ruled Syria for 30 years. The Syrian government responsible for the violence and protests' armed terrorist groups "operating in Dara, Banias, Homs and other parts of the country.
A human rights group has complained that security forces have killed at least 800 civilians during the seven weeks of popular revolt.
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