Homs

Homs, SANA-A civilian was injured in a mine explosion, left behind by terrorist groups in Al-Zara town in western Homs countryside.

Homs, SANA- A joint Syrian-Russian workshop on manufacturing smart artificial limbs was held at al-Bassel Stadium in the Faculty of Civil Engineering at al-Baath University in Homs on Tuesday.

Three areas were targeted in the strike: a scientific research centre in the greater Damascus area, a chemical storage facility west of Homs and a command post site in the vicinity of the Homs target, thought to be used for chemical weapons storage.

North of the Jabal ar Ruwaq and east of the city of Homs is another barren area known as the Homs Desert, which has a hard-packed dirt surface.

A war monitor said the Homs-area strikes killed a member of 's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

On July 2, Syria said Israeli airstrikes near the central city of Homs caused material damage.

SANA reported on Saturday that Israeli airstrikes over Homs wounded three civilians and that a civilian fuel station caught fire.

SYRIA-ISRAEL-STRIKES — Israeli airstrikes hit several sites in Syria’s Homs province, wounding five soldiers, Syrian state media reported.

The medical helicopters that frequently flew overhead terrified the family, provoking flashbacks to the helicopters that used to bomb and machine-gun the populace in Homs, Aldroubi said.

Air strikes and shelling by government forces and their ally Russia killed at least seven civilians near the city of Homs, as the army sought to slow the rebel advance there.

Analysts said Homs falling into rebel hands would be a game-changer.

CAIRO (Sputnik) – The Syrian Defense Ministry said Tuesday that eight service members had been killed, and 13 other people had been injured as a result of a terrorist blast on a bus south of the city of Palmyra in the Syrian governorate of Homs.

Hezbollah has also reinforced its fighters in Syria to help Assad in managing to keep important strategic regions such as Homs under his control.

Homs and Idlib followed with just under 20,000 deaths.

Homs is a city of strategic and hugely symbolic importance to the militants and to the opposition as a whole.

Hours before, HTS said it had “fully liberated” the major city of Homs, north of the capital.

If the insurgents capture Homs, they would cut the link between Damascus, Mr. Assad's seat of power, and the coastal region where the president enjoys wide support.

In Homs, scene of some of the war's deadliest violence, tens of thousands of members of Assad's Alawite minority were fleeing, fearing the rebels' advance, residents and the Britain-based Observatory said.

Iran will send missiles, drones and more advisers to Syria, a senior Iranian official said on Friday as insurgents pushed their lightning offensive south towards the city of Homs in the biggest challenge to President Bashar al-Assad's rule for years.

On Friday, they were advancing on the city of Homs, which lies on the road to Damascus.