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.

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 ...

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

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

A German court will rule Monday on the case of a Syrian doctor accused of crimes against humanity under former dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime. Germany has tried several supporters of Assad's regime ...

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 ...

HTS’s senior commander, Lt. Col. Hassan Abdul-Ghani, claimed that within 24 hours, HTS had captured the cities of Homs, Sweida, Quneitra and Daraa.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Syrian rebels claim to have captured a fifth city and are closing in on the capital of Damascus as they carry out a lightning-fast offensive that threatens to further destabilize a region already ...