DAMASCUS: Syrian army forces advanced Friday around rebel-held areas of the Old City of Homs, as a car bomb hit a regime-controlled part of the city, killing 14 people.Around 1,200 rebel fighters and nearly 200 civilians are believed to be inside the rebel-held parts of the Old City, under army siege for nearly two years.The army, which began a broad offensive there on Tuesday, “is progressing daily by capturing buildings and tightening the noose around the terrorist groups,” a security source said.Syrian authorities refer to all those seeking the ouster of President Bashar Assad as “terrorists.”The source added that regime forces had seized a church in the Old City.State news agency SANA said the army had seized buildings in the Bab Hud and Wadi Al-Sayeh districts and “killed a number of terrorists in Homs city and around it.”Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Hum...