In Syria, insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at Baath Party headquarters in Damascus in a symbolic strike against President Bashar al-Assad. The attack, coming amid a series of other assaults and growing sectarian strife in Homs, could augur a turn to a protracted armed struggle. The Arab League rejected a Syrian effort Sunday to amend an ineffectual peace agreement, and Assad vowed that he was prepared to fight and die if needed. The Free Syrian Army, an insurgent group made of defecting soldiers based in southern Turkey, claimed responsibility.
