STORY: Violence continues to flare in Syria.<br/> <br />Amateur videos posted to a social media website appear to show heavy shelling in areas of Homs.<br/> <br />One video, said to be shot on Thursday (July 5), shows plumes of smoke billowing from buildings along with a series of explosions.<br/> <br />In another video two rebels watch as smoke and flames rise from the wreckage of what a narrator says in Arabic is a helicopter that was fired on by rebels.<br/> <br />Reuters can not independently verify the content of these videos.<br/> <br />Meanwhile, on Friday (July 6), protesters in Aleppo call for political change, while the "Friends of Syria" group holds a third forum Paris in an attempt to end the violence that began nearly 16 months ago.<br/> <br />Sharon Reich, Reuters
