Mr. Azzouz left Syria in 2011 to escape the war and now lives in Britain. Homs is the name of my city. Once it was the capital of the Syrian revolution and in all the newspaper headlines. In its ...

HOMS, Syria — His face is everywhere in Syria. It's plastered on the country's new flags, on sweaters and on the side of buses. His voice, untrained and unfiltered, is ubiquitous, too: used in ...

Capturing Homs, Syria’s third-largest city, would be a major victory in a rebel offensive that already has captured Aleppo and Hama.

Homs, Syria’s third city, is nicknamed the “cradle of the revolution”. It witnessed some of the fiercest battles of the 13-year civil war – the scars of which are chiselled into many ...

Syrian rebels announced they gained full control over the key city of Homs early on Sunday after only a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule dangling by a thread as ...

Syrian state media said a five-day security operation in Homs city ended Monday, with a war monitor reporting hundreds of arrests in sweeps mostly targeting neighbourhoods of ousted president Bashar ...

Three civilians were injured and a gas station set on fire early Saturday near the Syrian city of Homs in an attack that Syria blamed on Israeli rockets, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported ...

Syria on Friday held funerals for scores of people killed in a drone attack on a graduation ceremony at a military academy in the Homs region the previous day, one of the bloodiest strikes against ...

Israeli airstrikes over Syria's central city of Homs and nearby areas killed and wounded civilians, the Syrian military said Wednesday without giving details. There was no immediate comment from ...

Syrian rebel forces said on Friday their lightning advance reached the central city of Homs, which could position the insurgents to topple another town strategic to President Bashar al-Assad's ...

But in 2011, when uprisings began against the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, Homs became a central point of protest – and crackdowns by government forces.

Syria’s rebels took Homs back from Assad in a matter of days. Now they have to police it. Bel Trew meets the new police chief in Syria’s third city, tasked with keeping the peace now that ...