With international attention focused on what happens between Tripoli and Benghazi, threatens to overshadow the fire extending into the Mashreq, the Arab Levant. A fire that now extends from Syria to Yemen, through Jordan and even the Shiite regions of Saudi Arabia, forcing world oil supplies. Syria - The situation is perhaps the most explosive Syria.
In the night between Sunday and Monday, security forces opened fire on demonstrators in the city of Homs, a traditional stronghold of the religious-inspired movements against the regime of Assad. According to the pan-Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera, the dead are at least 13. A figure likely to rise if, as some say local witnesses, there are injuries, even in serious conditions, which do not go to the hospital for fear of being arrested.
In the night between Sunday and Monday, security forces opened fire on demonstrators in the city of Homs, a traditional stronghold of the religious-inspired movements against the regime of Assad. According to the pan-Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera, the dead are at least 13. A figure likely to rise if, as some say local witnesses, there are injuries, even in serious conditions, which do not go to the hospital for fear of being arrested.
