French Foreign Minister says European Union will freeze assets of Syrian Central Bank from February 27

Alain Marie Juppe, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, says the governor of Homs and the Red Cross are working to get wounded journalists out of the Syrian city.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal walked out of a "Friends of Syria" meeting in Tunis over what was considered the gathering's "inactivity" on Friday. Al Arabiya television reported al-Faisal left the meeting after saying that focusing on humanitarian aid to Syria was "not enough."

David Rohde in a recent op-ed for Reuters:

Despite widespread rumors, no organized effort is under way to arm rebel fighters. The opposition “Free Syrian Army” remains a poorly equipped and loosely organized militia unable to stop a Syrian army still loyal to Assad. At the same time, a sectarian conflict between Assad’s ruling Allawite minority and Syria’s Sunni majority is intensifying.

In northern Syria, Sunni and Allawite villages have divided into pro- and anti-government enclaves, according to fleeing refugees. At checkpoints, government security forces order people to pray to the country’s Allawite leader. If they refuse, they are deemed Sunni subversives. And Sunni army defectors say Allawite officers threatened them with execution if they refused to fire on demonstrators.

“I had to do it,” a remorseful 24-year-old Sunni soldier who defected this week told me. “If I don’t fire, someone will kill me.”

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Watching the wounded die in Syria's besieged Homs

Struggling to survive after weeks of withering bombardment by Syrian forces, people in the Baba Amro district of Homs are packed four or five families to a house, relying on collected rain water and watching their wounded friends and relatives die for lack of medicines, residents say.

Some say starvation is a real threat and accuse the world of abandoning them to army shelling which they say has killed dozens of people and wounded 2,000 in the rebel stronghold of an 11-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.

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From the timeline published in this blog by Helen Cook, on the "Friends of Syria" conference being held today in Tunis:

"Russia and China, allies of Syria, decide not to attend."

Saudi foreign minister says arming Syrian opposition is "an excellent" idea.

The Red Cross says it is negotiating in Homs with Syrian authorities and rebels and is seeking medical evacuation of all persons "without exceptions"

Activist Alexander Page claims international journalists are being given preferential treatment for medical aid in Baba Amr.

Hamas ditches Assad, backs Syrian revolt

Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas turned publicly against their long-time ally President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on Friday, endorsing the revolt aimed at overthrowing his dynastic rule.

The policy shift deprives Assad of one of his few remaining Sunni Muslim supporters in the Arab world and deepens his international isolation. It was announced in Hamas speeches at Friday prayers in Cairo and a rally in the Gaza Strip.

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@TheExpertEye I didn't write the photo caption.

Tunisian foreign minister says "Friends of Syria" back the Arab League demand for a joint Arab and United Nations force in Syria

Clinton continues by saying the Syrian security forces' continued violence is a stain on their honor, the refusal to conduct attacks would make them heroes.