Assad's regime collapsed in just 12 days, ending over five decades of authoritarian rule in Syria. A swift and coordinated ...

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 ...

Now, the rebels have set their sights on the city of Homs, a strategic choke point between rebel-controlled areas in the north and the capital, Damascus. If they are able to seize it, it could be ...

Thousands of people have fled the Syrian city of Homs as rebel fighters pushed further south with their rapid assault on government forces, a leading monitoring group said. If the strategically ...

The militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) claimed Saturday afternoon ET that it had captured Homs, the largest province in Syria, the borders of which stretch to Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon.

To the blast of a trumpet and the beating of drums, Fatima Hazzouri has come home. Thirteen years after civil war forced her to leave, she's back in her native city, Homs in Syria, blinking in the ...

New York Times correspondents in Homs spoke to people who were reacting to his fall with smiles and tears. The rubble of a cemetery inside the destroyed neighborhood of Baba Amr, an area of Homs ...

Syrian rebels captured the key city of Homs on Saturday after less than a day of fighting, threatening the 24-year reign of dictator Bashar al-Assad as forces continue their rapid offensive ...

HOMS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs on Thursday, a day after protests by members of the Alawite minority erupted in gunfire ...

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"Our forces have liberated the last village on the outskirts of the city of Homs and are now on its walls," the Syrian faction leading the sweeping assault said on Telegram. Sign up here.

Sitting in the back room of her pharmacy, Eva Lati summed up the reasons for her concern for Homs, the city where she lives in central Syria. "Fear is widespread, weapons are everywhere." ...