More than 450 members of Syria's National Defense Force have been deployed in Homs, on January 21, 2013

Syrian members of the National Defense Forces stand to attention at their training center in Wadi al-Dahab in the Syrian city of Homs, on January 21, 2013. An all-female unit of Syria’s paramilitary force, pledging loyalty to Bashar al-Assad, has been deployed in the restive city of Homs