Syria: bombs hit Aleppo as tanks pound Homs - live updates
• State media reports many casualties in Aleppo bomb attacks • Residents trapped in Homs as the week-long siege goes on • Obama condemns 'outrageous bloodshed'

Syria: UN offers help as Homs assault continues - live updates
• UN offers to join the Arab League monitoring mission • More killed on the sixth day of the assault on Homs • Pentagon draws up contingency plans

Syria: Assad pledges reform as siege of Homs continues - live updates
• Bombardment of Homs continues for a fifth day • US says it won't arm Free Syrian Army • Russia calls for an Arab solution to the crisis

The siege of Homs: scores killed in fifth day of shelling
Opposition activists say tanks are pushing deeper into residential areas before feared final ground assault

Inside Homs: 'We are seriously dying here. It is really war'
Residents of Homs say the Syrian army is carrying out a ferocious bombardment against helpless civilians