With a population of more than 1.4 million, Homs is Syria’s third-largest city. Positioned on Syria’s M5 highway, it sits at a strategic location just 25 miles south of Hama, which rebels ...

When Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by Islamist rebels in Syria in December after 14 years of civil war, there were concerns ...

(AP Photo/Leo Correa) HOMS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s new security ... which has a mixed population of Sunni and Shia Muslims, Alawites and Christians. The security forces are controlled by the ...

Homs, Syria’s third city ... war – the scars of which are chiselled into many neighbourhoods. Homs’s population is diverse, composed of Sunni Muslims, Christians, and the Alawite minority ...

Western rural Homs is a land of breezeblock buildings, green fields and drystone walls. The sky hangs grey over the landscape ...

Church leaders in Syria said they were working closely with the new leadership to ensure that religious freedom will be ...

EU officials agreed to begin easing sanctions on Syria. Dozens of people were executed this weekend in the city of Homs.

Half of Syria’s population now lives in areas contaminated with landmines. As displaced people begin to return home, the hazards posed by these explosives cannot be ignored. Meanwhile ...

After the exodus of most Syrian Jews, a few remain in the country they have called home for centuries. The New Arab finds out ...

His own home, where he lives with his family ... a community comprising around 10 percent of Syria's population. This association has prompted fears within the community of being targeted by ...

HOMS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s new security forces ... up throughout the country’s third-largest city, which has a mixed population of Sunni and Shia Muslims, Alawites and Christians.