HOMS, Syria (AP ... A tense calm prevailed after checkpoints were set up throughout the country’s third-largest city, which has a mixed population of Sunni and Shia Muslims, Alawites ...

Homs, SANA After restoring security and stability to the majority of the neighborhoods of the city of Homs and the ... 2012-2014 of the war waged against the country, however, and will be ...

Fighting has not taken place, but the specter of violence continues to hang over the city ... of the country. In early January, the new government launched a "sweep operation" in Homs, claiming ...

Syria's new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs on Thursday ... in gunfire and stirred fears that the country's fragile peace could break down.