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          Activists: Pro-Syria Troops Advance in Key Homs Neighborhood

   Syrian activists say forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad are
   pushing to gain control in a strategically important section of the
   central city of Homs.
   The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday the
   troops have taken over a large part of the Wadi al-Sayeh neighborhood,
   which sits between several rebel-controlled districts in center of the
   city.
   The Observatory warned that if pro-Assad forces capture what it calls
   the city`s "old neighborhoods," then there are fears that sectarian
   killings could follow.
   Homs is Syria`s third-largest city, located along a highway about
   halfway between the capital, Damascus, to the south and the commercial
   center of Aleppo to the north. It has been a key hub in the more than
   two-year-old uprising against Mr. Assad.
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