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Credit: Reuters/DigitalGlobe Related News Sarkozy says hurt French reporter to be flown home Thu, Mar 1 2012 U.N. concerned Syria may have chemical weapons Thu, Mar 1 2012 U.N. rights body condemns Syria over violations Thu, Mar 1 2012 Syria to let Red Cross into Homs rebel bastion Thu, Mar 1 2012 Most Syria rebels pull out of Baba Amro in Homs Thu, Mar 1 2012 Syria opposition chiefs at odds over military body Thu, Mar 1 2012 Russia, China join U.N. council in Syria rebuke Thu, Mar 1 2012 Analysis & Opinion Prosperity, autocracy and democracy How Obama’s drone war is backfiring Related Topics World » United Nations » Syria » Related Video A dangerous practice in Syria Thu, Mar 1 2012 U.N. condemns Syria violence How Syria’s citizen journalists upload their video By Mariam Karouny BEIRUT | Thu Mar 1, 2012 8:11pm EST BEIRUT (Reuters) - Defeated Syrian rebels abandoned their shattered stronghold in Homs, giving way to a 26-day army assault on a city that had become a symbol of the year-long revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. Activists said Syria's army had begun hunting down and killing insurgents who stayed to cover their comrades' "tactical retreat" from the city's battle-scarred Baba Amro district, although the reports could not be verified independently. One pro-government figure said troops had "broken the back" of the uprising and the rebel withdrawal heralded impending victory over a Western-backed insurgency. Soon afterward, the international Red Cross said Syrian authorities had finally given it the "green light" to take aid into Baba Amro on Friday. As news of the pull-out spread, video footage released on the internet appeared to show the bodies of American journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik being buried in Homs, where they were killed in shelling eight days ago. French journalists Edith Bouvier, who was wounded in the same bombardment, and William Daniels escaped to Lebanon on Thursday, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy said, of the last of a handful of reporters trapped in the city. Armed rebels and defecting soldiers have been spearheading the revolt against Assad that began with largely peaceful protests inspired by the Arab Spring, but escalated after a bloody government crackdown. Reports from Homs, seen as a bastion of rebel resistance, could not be verified immediately due to tight government restrictions on media operations in Syria. At least 17 rebels were put to death with knives after they were chased into nearby fields, one activist told Reuters. Scattered gunfire could be heard inside Baba Amro and sporadic shelling hit nearby districts, the activists said. The overall level of combat exchanges seemed to have receded. Snow blanketed the city, where hundreds have died and residents are short of food, fuel, power, water and telephone links, activists said. "The Free Syrian Army and all the other fighters have left Baba Amro," one activist said from Homs. "They pulled out." SCENTING VICTORY The drama in Homs unfolded without any immediate comment from Syrian officials or the state media, but Taleb Ibrahim, a Syrian analyst close to the government, said the military's operation in Homs had "broken the back of the armed groups." "It's the beginning of Syria's final victory over the Qatari, Saudi, French, American and Zionist conspiracy against Syria," he told Lebanon's Hezbollah-run al-Manar television. A Lebanese official close to Damascus said Assad's government was determined to regain control of Homs, Syria's third city, which straddles the main north-south highway. "They want to take it, whatever happens, without restraint, whatever the cost," the official said, asking not to be named. 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