Red Cross convoy heads for Baba Amr area of Homs

An activist in the Syrian city of Homs has said the Free Syrian Army has left the embattled district of Baba Amr

A Red Cross convoy is on its way to the Baba Amr area of the Syrian city of Homs, to deliver food and medical supplies after a month-long siege.

The Red Cross and Syrian Red Crescent are organising the seven-lorry aid convoy, and are also planning to evacuate the wounded.
The area has suffered heavy bombardment by government forces in recent weeks.
The rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) said on Thursday it was leaving the district in a "tactical withdrawal".
Of the 100,000 people who normally live in Baba Amr only a few thousand remain, with the FSA saying it had pulled back to save those still there from an all-out assault.
Meanwhile, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said it had received reports of "a particularly grisly set of summary executions" in Homs.
'No obstacle'
Syrian Red Crescent operations chief Khaled Erksoussi told Agence France-Presse: "We are on the way to Homs, along with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), carrying food, medicines, blankets, milk for babies and other equipment."

However, it has been snowing heavily in Homs, slowing the lorries on the journey from Damascus.

Red Crescent volunteers and ambulances are waiting in Homs to join the convoy, which will then head into Baba Amr.
Many of those still in Baba Amr are without power and running low on basic supplies. The ICRC said it feared there could be many people seriously wounded.
But Sean Maguire, a spokesman for the ICRC, told the BBC: "If the fighting has truly died down, in theory there should be no obstacle to us going in there and staying there on a day-to-day basis.
"Our colleagues from the Syrian Red Crescent have been distributing food and assistance in other areas of Homs on a daily basis, and we hope to be able to do the same in Baba Amr."
Meanwhile, France has confirmed that two French journalists who had been trapped in Homs are now safely out of the country.
Reporter Edith Bouvier, 31, and photojournalist William Daniels, 34, are now in Lebanon, President Nicolas Sarkozy said. They are expected back in France later on Friday.
Ms Bouvier was badly injured in the bombardment of a makeshift media centre last week, in which two journalists were killed.
Syrian authorities say the bodies of the two, Marie Colvin of Britain's Sunday Times and French photojournalist Remi Ochlik, have been found and will be taken to Damascus to be handed over to the relevant embassies.
A fifth journalist, Javier Espinosa, is reported safe in Lebanon. Inaki Gil, deputy director of the El Mundo newspaper, told AFP he had spoken to Mr Espinosa. UK photographer Paul Conroy had escaped to Lebanon earlier.