Syria Presses Crackdown After China’s Zhai Urges End to Violence
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Syrian security forces maintained their crackdown against opponents of President Bashar al-Assad’s rule after China urged an end to the violence.
At least 13 people were killed yesterday, following a toll of 31 on Feb. 17, the U.K.-based opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in an e-mailed statement today. The Syrian army resumed shelling residential districts of Homs, Al Jazeera reported, citing opposition groups. A fuel storage depot at the refinery in the besieged city was bombed overnight by “an armed terrorist group,” the official Syrian Arab News Agency said.