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Homs, SANA-Homs residents welcomed the second convoy of forcibly displaced families on Friday morning, returning from refugee ...
Thirteen years after civil war forced her to leave, she's back in her native city, Homs in Syria, blinking in the sunshine as ...
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 ...
Syrian rebels announced they gained full control over the key city of Homs early on Sunday after only a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule dangling by a thread as ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
"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.
Shamim Chowdhury is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is on major international breaking news stories, in particular, conflicts, refugees and natural disasters. She has reported ...