"The shelling started around 3pm," said Abu Jaffour.
"Just as we were getting ready to start the demonstration, the shelling started," he said.
Then people came to help and the shelling started again," he said.
We thought it was untreatable, but ironically, the day the shelling started, her doctor told us her tumours had shrunk.
It was early on Tuesday evening, and Aijaz Abdulaha had returned from a day in his fields in this valley surrounded by towering mountains when the shelling started.
"Our television showed how the shelling started, the incursion of Georgian forces, and so on," Zolotarev, who helped draft Russia's national-security doctrine in the nineteen-nineties, said.
"The tally that we have received from various activists in Homs since the shelling started at six this morning is 50, mostly civilians," Catherine al-Talli of the Syrian National Council told Reuters.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — It seemed promising until the shelling started: under a brief cease-fire, 200 civilians were preparing to evacuate on Wednesday from a rebel-held town near Damascus that the government has blockaded for months.
The niece of one of the dead men showed the blood stains on the wooden floor where she said her uncle, Idriz Ajdari, 51, and his wife, Hirijete, were eating when the shells started falling.
