A rapid-chess tournament held to mark the anniversary of liberation wrapped up on Saturday with 39 players from various age ...

Syrian insurgents led by the rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham captured two strategic towns north of Syria's third-largest ...

The killing of a Bedouin couple in Syria’s Homs province has triggered renewed sectarian tensions. Authorities reported that the bodies were found Sunday with sectarian slogans at the crime scene.

A precarious calm returned to Syria’s central Homs province on Monday following a day of violent unrest triggered by the murder of a couple from a Bedouin tribe in the town of Zaydal.

Deadly clashes in Syria’s Homs province have renewed fears over state control and minority safety, as Bedouin fighters targeted Alawites and authorities imposed extended curfews.

The strategically important province of Homs, which is the gateway to the capital Damascus, stands out as the heartland of Syria due to its geographical location, proximity to energy resources and ...

Syrian rebels are rapidly advancing on Homs, having taken control of the northern countryside in a lightning offensive against government forces that has already seen Hama and Aleppo fall. There were ...

STORY: This video is said to show a Russian strike on a bridge that Syrian rebels would use to get to Homs. A Syrian army officer told Reuters it was bombed to prevent the rebels using it. :: Al-Dar ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s army continues to blast away at the city of Homs and on Thursday we spoke with someone living in the middle of the conflict. Lubna, a 27-year-old woman who wished to ...

One year ago, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad fled the country aboard a Russian military aircraft. Twelve months later, the ...

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“HUNGER is a killer,” says Burhan, a 22-year-old rebel fighter who left Homs under a deal between the regime of Bashar Assad and rebel forces in February. On May 7th the remaining rebels in Homs’s old ...