More than 100 people were shot, stabbed and possibly burned to death in the Syrian city of Homs this week, in what a monitoring group said was a massacre by the army or militia loyal to President Bashar Assad, Reuters reported Thursday, January 17. The Britain-based monitoring group said women and children were among the 106 people killed by forces who stormed Basatin al-Hasawiya, an impoverished district on the edge of town. Homs province was the scene in May 2011, of the killing of 108 people, including nine children and 34 women, in the town of Houla, which U.N. monitors blamed on the army and pro-Assad militia. Homs saw some of the biggest anti-Assad protests at the start of the revolt and heavy bombardment leveled whole neighborhoods and killed thousands of people as the army attacked rebels who moved into the city.