The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Thursday that the Military Operations Administration, backed by local gunmen, conducted “a large-scale security campaign” in the western ...

Security forces under Syria's new authorities check the identification of a man in Homs — OMAR HAJ KADOUR In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community ...

EU officials agreed to begin easing sanctions on Syria. Dozens of people were executed this weekend in the city of Homs.