Syrian state television on Monday broadcast funerals of four soldiers reportedly killed over the weekend in the western city of Homs.<br /><br />State TV said the troops were killed in armed clashes with what it described as "armed terrorist groups".<br /><br />President Bashar al-Assad has sent tanks deep into Syria's third city Homs, escalating a military campaign to crush a seven-week-old uprising against his autocratic rule.
