Omran, a Homs native, defected from the Assad regime in 2012 and joined the small Islamist faction Ansar al-Sham. He was later appointed by HTS to manage police in Haram city, Idlib.

Capturing Homs, Syria’s third-largest city, would be a major victory in a rebel offensive that already has captured Aleppo and Hama.

Syrian rebel forces said on Friday their lightning advance reached the central city of Homs, which could position the insurgents to topple another town strategic to President Bashar al-Assad's ...

Mr. Azzouz left Syria in 2011 to escape the war and now lives in Britain. Homs is the name of my city. Once it was the capital of the Syrian revolution and in all the newspaper headlines. In its ...

Homs, SANA-The book “Deterring Aggression” by young author Abdul Majid al-Khalaf documents the liberation of Syria from the ...

T he 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 ...

Homs, SANA – A delegation from the Directorate of Political Affairs in Homs Governorate, led by Director Obeida al-Arnaout, visited several churches in the city and surrounding countryside to offer ...

Western rural Homs is a land of breezeblock buildings, green fields and drystone walls. The sky hangs grey over the landscape ...

A German court has sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes in his homeland for killing two ...

With Homs in rebel hands just 30 miles from Damascus, the Assad Dynasty is possibly facing the end of its five-decade hold on Syria and the continued influence of Iran, its main regional supporter.

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 ...

A film student trapped by Syrian government troops in the besieged city of Homs tries to find his way out in Sulaiman Tadmory and Ali Hakim’s “700 Days in Homs.” The project is currently ...