The Latest Breaking News from Homs

In cities along the M5 highway just after the fall of Assad, many expressed relief – along with wariness about the future

The French judiciary is investigating the 2012 deaths of reporters in Syria as a possible crime against humanity, anti-terror prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday.

Diverse city has grown tense since fall of Assad regime, as security forces target groups loyal to the former dictator

For 50 years Taha Tadmori had a window to the surveillance complex of the Assad regime. As Syria starts a new chapter, he recalls the horrors he witnessed and the family he lost

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 al-Assad's Alawite community.

Syria’s new security forces have deployed in tanks in the city of Homs to search for militia members and former soldiers loyal to ousted President Bashar Assad who have refused to surrender their weapons

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and Syrian forces' operations in Homs; Al Jazeera faces restrictions in the West Bank. Current events in the Middle East.

Syria's new security forces in Homs work to maintain peace amid sectarian tensions and recent unrest.

Syria’s new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs a day after protests by members of the Alawite minority erupted in gunfire and stirred fears that the country’s fragile peace could break down

ON THE GROUND: Bel Trew meets the new police chief in Syria’s third city, tasked with keeping the peace now that forces led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham have ousted the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Every city across the country is now facing the same question: who will rule…

Here’s an explanation of the last two days of fighting that brought down al-Assad in Syria.