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 rebel groups said Saturday evening they had entered Homs — Syria’s third-largest city and a strategic junction — and were close to claiming it amid reports that the Syrian army was ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

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 ...

Dec. 6 (UPI) --Ten of thousands of civilians have been streaming out of the central Syrian city of Homs ahead of a week-old southward advance by Islamist opposition rebels that has its sights on ...

Sitting in the police headquarters of Homs, in an office that, until last week, was run by the feared intelligence network of ...