In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

The advance continued at pace, and on Saturday the rebels swept through Syria's third city, Homs, facing little resistance ... been given asylum in Russia. Map: Where is Syria and how are its ...

The cities of Homs and Hama, two of Syria's largest by population, were also captured by HTS over the course of the campaign, alongside Idlib, under its control since 2017. To the north ...

where they clashed with the Syrian army. Hama's capture could clear a path for a further rebel push on the centrally-located crossroads of Homs and further southwards, including the capital Damascus.

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

Syria in maps: Where have anti-Assad rebels taken control ... They seized Hama, to the north of Homs, on Thursday - a second major blow to President Assad, who lost control of Aleppo last week.

Syrian state media said a five-day security operation in Homs city ended Monday, with a war monitor reporting hundreds of arrests in sweeps mostly targeting neighbourhoods of ousted president Bashar ...

Supported by By Carlotta Gall Photographs and Video by David Guttenfelder Reporters for The New York Times spent several days in Homs, Syria, after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad.