WRAPUP 7-Assad forces bomb Syria's Homs; reporters killed=2

Although some say support around Assad is crumbling and the

military is tiring, others say he could hang on for many months

more before he joins Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, Egypt's Hosni

Mubarak and Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali on the list of

deposed Arab leaders, if he does at all.

There are also fears the revolt could flare into a

religion-based civil war and spread across the volatile Middle

East.

(Additional reporting by Erika Solomon and Mariam Karouny in

Beirut, John Irish in Paris; Steve Gutterman in Moscow,

Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva, Peter Griffiths in London; Editing

by Rosalind Russell; khaled.oweis@reuters.com; +962 6 4623776)