The city of Homs in central Syria has long held a unique position in the Syrian psyche. Home to a mix of ethnic groups, it became a symbol of resistance to Bashar al-Assad’s regime in 2011 ...

Video posted to social media shows violence in Homs, Syria. Fighters linked to Bashar al-Assad mounted a deadly attack on government forces in Homs on March 6.

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 ...

Homs (Syria) (AFP) – Once dubbed the capital of the revolution against Bashar al-Assad, Homs saw some of the fiercest fighting in Syria's civil war. Now, displaced people are returning to their ...

The fighting and reprisal killings were centered in Syria’s coastal region of Latakia, a heartland for the Alawite sect, and spilled into neighboring Homs and Tartus provinces, demographically ...

Alawite leaders say their community around Latakia and Tartous as well as near Homs, Syria's third-biggest city, have been targeted since the Assad regime was toppled in December. Assad was from ...