Violence Intensifies in Homs, Syria

Anti-government protesters burn tires during a demonstration in the town of Daria, near Damascus February 6, 2012. (Reuters)

A member of the Free Syrian Army stands guard as anti-Syrian regime protesters hold a demonstration in Idlib, Syria, on February 6, 2012. (AP)

Anti-Syrian regime protesters play drums and wave a revolutionary flag during a demonstration in Idlib, Syria, on February 6, 2012. (AP)

This image released February 6, 2012, purports to show people outside a hospital in Homs, Syria. (AP/Shaam)

This image released February 6, 2012, purports to show a wounded man outside a hospital in Homs, Syria. (AP/Shaam)

A girl wounded February 5, 2012, sits next to her relatives in a neighbourhood of Homs February 6, 2012. (Reuters)

This image released February 6, 2012, purports to show an explosion in Damascus, Syria. (AP/Shaam)

Demonstrators take part in a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Marat al-Numan near the northern province of Idlib on February 5, 2012. (Reuters)

Syrian rebels gather in an alley as they secure a demonstration in Idlib, Syria on February 5, 2012. (AP)