U.N. tours Syria city turned war zone

June 12, 2012 4:19 PM

Few western journalists have been able to get inside Syria; but Elizabeth Palmer drove to the center of the conflict in the area near the city of Homs after U.N. observers declared the escalating violence as a full scale civil war.

A look at the front lines of Syria's civil war

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