The situation in Syria, Homs

Arab foreign ministers have agreed to ask the United Nations for a joint peacekeeping force and a special Arab ambassador to help halt the violence in Syria. Their meeting on Sunday came as Bashar al-Assad's government intensified its crackdown on Homs, the stronghold of the so-called Free Syrian Army of defectors and armed civilians. Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reports.



As violence becomes worse in Syria, more soldiers are defecting from the army. Al Jazeera's Jane Ferguson reports.