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

President Bashar Assad, Syria’s ruler for 24 years — succeeding his father, Hafez Assad — fled the country. Russian state media reported that he was in Moscow. It’s a stunning development ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The White Helmets sit in their rescue vehicles in Homs, Syria. Even with the war over, their workload has grown, with an average of 15,000 missions per month, says Farouq Habib, the White Helmets ...

HOMS, Syria (AP) - Family members of victims of a deadly drone attack on a crowded military graduation ceremony gathered outside a military hospital in the central city of Homs on Friday to ...

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 ...

Earlier, blasts were heard in and around Qusayr, a town in southern Homs province, and authorities had said they were investigating the cause. The Israeli military on Monday confirmed strikes ...

Syria’s state news agency, SANA, says the country’s air defenses responded to Israeli missiles in the sky over Homs early Saturday and shot down some of them ...

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 ...