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12 killed as Homs attack continues Rebels gather in an alley in Idlib, Syria (AP)  MORE PICTURES Ads by Google QROPS Pensions Explained Do You Have £70K to £1.8m In UKPensions? Free QROPS Guide & Advice your.QROPSchoices.com/HMRCapproved At least 12 people have been killed as Syrian troops shelled parts of the city of Homs, striking a makeshift medical clinic and residential areas, activists said. The bloodshed came one day after President Bashar Assad's government vowed to continue its crackdown on a nearly 11-month-old uprising that has become one of the deadliest of the Arab Spring. The activist reports could not be independently confirmed. Homs - which many refer to as "the capital of the Syrian revolution" - has become a flashpoint of the uprising against Assad. Several areas of the city, such as Baba Amr, are under the control of rebel army defectors. On Saturday, Syrian forces killed up to 200 people in Hom