Thousands of Syrian refugees are set to return from Lebanon this week under the first, U.N.-backed plan providing financial ...

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the ...

Syria’s rebels took Homs back from Assad in a matter of days. Now they have to police it - ON THE GROUND: Bel Trew meets the new police chief in Syria’s third city, tasked with keeping the ...

Homs, Syria: Inside the City of Fear. Published Nov 28, 2011 at 12:00 AM EST Updated Nov 26, 2011 at 3:08 PM EST. The people of Homs--a city of 1 million in Syria's heartland--rose up to demand ...

Syria President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule was dangling by a thread after rebels announced they gained full control over the key city of Homs.

The United States must press the Syrian Transitional Government to bring the perpetrators of the Saint Elias Church attack to ...

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

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 ...

In Syrian city of Homs, an orderly evacuation of rebels By Jomana Karadsheh , Jennifer Hauser and Joe Sterling , CNN 2 minute read ...

HOMS, Syria - It's hard to believe that this was home to thousands of families, but in 2011 anti-regime fighters - followed by Islamic militants - dug in to the neighborhood, ...

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 ...