The above video gives you a jarring sense of what it's like in the war zone of Baba Amr, Homs. Brian Whitaker wonders how long Assad can continue to kill like this:
[R]eforms, on a scale that would satisfy the protesters (including renouncing the supremacy of the Baath party), are not a practical option for Assad. At the same time, he has to continue delivering economically for his support base – which is proving increasingly difficult.
Daniel Serwer has five suggestions for how the US can help midwife the process of Assad's collapse. Inna Lazareva tracks the internal debate about Assad amongst his Russian patrons. Arab League delegates have just arrived [NYT] in Syria. Lebanon's Daily Star reports on the ominous history of the monitor mission's Sudanese leader. Juan Cole collects news coverage of the assault on Idlib. The video below is supposedly some of the only footage of the mass slaughter in Idlib that claimed the lives of around 100 Syrians:
This is a funeral/protest likely from Da'el, in the Hauran region:
Finally, this man – George Hayyar – was killed in Homs:
The Dish 