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

Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani called on his fighters not to harm "those who drop their arms," according to the ...

Iran ordered the evacuations, because “they feared they would be trapped after the collapse in Syria,” said the Iraqi ...

Thousands of people fled the central Syrian city of Homs, the country's third largest, as insurgents seized two towns on the outskirts Friday, positioning themselves for an assault on a ...

Bel Trew meets the new police chief in Syria’s third city, tasked with keeping the peace now that forces led by the Islamist ...

The BBC has not yet been able to verify the claims. The Syrian Defence Ministry said the reports were false and that the situation in Homs was "stable and safe". Meanwhile, rebel forces are ...

Despite joyous images of Syrian refugees going home, no government should be sending or planning to send people back ...

Syrian anti-government forces are approaching the city of Homs causing thousands of civilians to flee, according to a war monitor. On Friday, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR ...

HTS, the former al-Qaida-linked Al-Nusra Front, claimed on Friday that it had captured two towns six miles north of Homs, Syria’s third-largest city and a strategic gateway to the capital ...

Hezbollah sent a small number of "supervising forces" from Lebanon to Syria overnight to help prevent anti-government fighters from seizing Homs, two senior Lebanese security sources told Reuters.

BEIRUT — Thousands of people fled the central Syrian city of Homs, the country’s third largest, as insurgents seized two towns on the outskirts Friday, positioning themselves for an assault on ...