Sitting in the police headquarters of Homs, in an office that, until last week, was run by the feared intelligence network of Bashar al-Assad, Alaa Omran is holding court. A former regime police ...

Rebels have advanced into Homs, Syria's third-largest city, signalling a major development in the nation's ongoing conflict, reported a war monitor, while the country's ruler is reported to have ...

Syrian rebels claimed on Friday that were closing in on the central city of Homs, just ten days after they began a lightening offensive that has seen them seize control of multiple cities.