In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...

Russia already had a decades-long relationship with the Assad government, and had military bases there before the civil war. Russian President Vladimir Putin used his country's presence in Syria, and ...

Syria’s economy has been hammered for years by the war, Western sanctions ... He spoke before the opposition advanced further south toward Homs. He said the insurgents, whom he described ...

This marked the fourth city in a week that the rebels managed to take before also reportedly taking Homs. Meanwhile, Russia, an ally to Syria, has its focus on Ukraine amid the ongoing war between ...

Syrian security forces are conducting an operation in Homs city, state media reported on Thursday, with a monitor saying it targeted two districts that are home to the Alawite minority of toppled ...

If Islamist insurgents captured Homs in their lightning new ... uprising against Assad mushroomed into civil war 13 years ago. The head of the Syrian faction leading the sweeping assault told ...

HOMS, Syria (AP ... nearly 14 years of civil war. Those who instigated the violence “are supported by parties that may be external that want strife for Syria to return it to square one ...

First built seven centuries before the birth of Christ ... Syria despite opportunities abroad and the nearly 14-year-old war, speaks with a Syrian-Jew old woman Firdos Mallakh, 86, at her home in ...

Syria’s economy has been hammered for years by the war, Western sanctions ... He spoke before the opposition advanced further south toward Homs. He said the insurgents, whom he described ...