CNN also explains how they were smuggled into Damascus , Syria , to witness a brutal crackdown on regime opponents . After a year of protests across Syria , Homs was the target of a military effort to quash the protests . Working in a home that had become an unofficial media center for the few Western journalists that have made it into Homs , a rocket slammed into the building just two floors up . Women live in basements , snipers kill from rooftops , men fight the odds in helicopters . A home being used as a media center was targeted by the Syrian military surrounding the city .
CNN also explains how they were smuggled into Damascus , Syria , to witness a brutal crackdown on regime opponents . After a year of protests across Syria , Homs was the target of a military effort to quash the protests . Women live in basements , snipers kill from rooftops , men fight the odds in helicopters . A home being used as a media center was targeted by the Syrian military surrounding the city .