Todos ellos participaban en una visita oficial a la ciudad de Homs cuando fueron atacados.
"Interestingly, we have been only hearing the sounds of birds, " said Abu Salah, a Homs resident.
Moumtzis said the sprawling and restive Homs province has been the top place of refugee origin.
Like all the dead in this part of Homs, she was buried in darkness.
Elsewhere, Syrian security forces purportedly "seized" explosive, weapons and ammunition in Homs and in Idlib province.
One of them was Anas al-Tarsha, killed in Homs last month in a mortar attack.
Syrian forces, meanwhile, killed 30 civilians, most of them dying in continued fighting in Homs, the group said.
Homs has been all too much at the centre of events in Syria over the past two years.
He was killed in the city of Homs in the west of Syria in circumstances that remain unclear.
American aid means winter supplies for more than half a million people in Aleppo, Homs and Deir Ezzor.
Just getting into Homs was an ordeal that took five days for what would normally be a two-hour drive.
Some observers conjured images of Sarajevo in describing Syrian attacks on the besieged city of Homs earlier this year.
One young mother from Homs had given birth - by caesarean section - just days after arriving in Nabatiya.
Al-Arab, the Homs resident, said military planes were over his besieged city Wednesday.
Susan Rice, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, said the shelling of Homs was a violation of the cease-fire.
Homs, for example, once had been home to about 80, 000 Christians, but the commission said most have escaped to Lebanon.
To date, only four of Syria's 14 governorates constitute the major hubs of the protest movement: Homs, Hama, Idlib and Daraa.
Syrian troops destroyed an explosive device warehouse and killed and injured a number of terrorists in Homs, state media reported Thursday.
Before the conflict started in March 2011, the largest Christian communities were in the Damascus, Aleppo and Homs regions, it said.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported Sunday that a delegation of U.N. observers was visiting the al-Khaldiyeh neighborhood of Homs.
And the lanes of gutted houses lead to the historic Old City, the cherished heart of Homs which barely beats now.
President Bashar Assad's troops regained control of the Wadi Sayeh district in the center of Homs early Thursday morning, the Observatory said.
Two locations specifically identified are Aleppo and Homs, which are clearly dangerous.
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Another video, said to have been shot Sunday in the town of Talbeesa, north of Homs, showed children being pushed on swings.
Ahmed Hamada was killed by a sniper in Homs, five days earlier.
Um Mazed is a 28-year-old Syrian refugee from Homs who has started earning money by arranging marriages between Syrian girls and Arab men.
As critical as these areas around Damascus is the town of Qusayr between Homs and the Lebanese border, once home to 50, 000 people.
Tariq al Sayed, a spokesman from the Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr, said he is a friend of the rebel in the video.
Britain and France say they have reliable evidence that the Assad regime used chemical weapons near Aleppo, in Homs and possibly in Damascus.
Five days on, late in the evening, one of the most prolific Syrian citizen journalists Rami al-Sayed was killed in shelling in Homs.
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