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.

Homs, Syria's third-largest city, started to look like something out of World War II or worse. And all that time, the cameras were right there with Basset and his men, capturing everything.

Syrian Army Escalates Crack Down In Homs In Syria, army tanks have swept into the country's third largest city Homs. It's part of an assault on heavily populated residential neighborhoods.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, citing sources, reported that "the number of deaths in airstrikes by unknown drones on the military school in Homs has exceeded 60." "According to SOHR ...

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

The two French journalists who escaped Homs yesterday, one of was seriously wounded, were flown back to France on a special flight arranged by French President Nicholas Sarkozy, who met them upon ...

The Homs Media Center, an activist group, is reporting that 2,000 residents including 400 rebel fighters have left Al-Waer and are heading to Jarablus in the Aleppo countryside.

Across Homs, some estimates put the FSA strength at more than 1,000. Each neighborhood has its own command, but they sometimes combine forces to improve their odds against the much larger and ...

Three civilians were injured and a gas station set on fire early Saturday near the Syrian city of Homs in an attack that Syria blamed on Israeli rockets, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported ...

Other activists echoed the sense of fear that envelops Homs. "It's become impossible to go out on the street," said Waleed Fares, from the city's Al-Khaldya neighbourhood.