More than 100 people, including women and children, were reportedly killed in a horrific attack in Homs, Syria, on Thursday, according to the antigovernment activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The number killed has not been independently verified due to reporting restrictions. The 106 victims were either burned in their homes or individually shot or stabbed when forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad attacked an impoverished part of the city. An estimated 60,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011.
