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Assault on Homs pauses, briefly, for Assad visit (VIDEO)

Assad's official TV blames a rebel for the murder of his own family.

Syrian opposition: government shells Homs hours before UN arrives

Activists cry foul over Assad's promised cease-fire.

This image grab of footage uploaded on YouTube on March 20, 2012 allegedly shows a burning vehicle and gas cylinders, mainly used for cooking, strewn across a street after a mortar shell struck a gas depot store in the central restive Syrian city of Homs.

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