Homs, parts of which were controlled by insurgents until 2014, stands at an important intersection between Damascus and Syria's coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus, where Assad enjoys wide ...

After over a decade in exile, many Syrians living abroad are contemplating what was once unthinkable: going home. But what ...

A member of the security forces of the newly formed Syrian government checks the ID of a driver at a security checkpoint in Homs, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024.

The activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least eight soldiers were shot and killed in one rebel attack, and some 30 Syrian civilians and rebels were killed across the country ...

Newly-wed Syrian couple Nada Merhi,18, and Syrian army soldier Hassan Youssef,27, pose for a wedding picture amid heavily damaged buildings in the war ravaged city of Homs on February 5, 2016.

In Homs, I met the jurist Sharaa had recently appointed to run the city’s courts. Hassan al-Aqraa was a stout man with a bushy black beard and a lumpy nose that looked as if it had been mangled ...

“It’s the home my wife and I had put a lot of effort and money to finish, and it’s the place that I was not permitted to go to for 14 years,” Rass said.

An uneasy calm settles over Syrian city of Homs after outbreak of sectarian violence by: ABBY SEWELL, Associated Press Posted: Dec 26, 2024 / 06:58 PM PST Updated: Dec 26, 2024 / 07:04 PM PST ...

A member of the security forces of the newly formed Syrian government checks the ID of a driver at a security checkpoint in Homs, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024.

On the road from Damascus, security teams at the checkpoints waved cars through perfunctorily, but in Homs they checked IDs and opened the trunk of each car to look for weapons.

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 gunfir… ...