Homs in a sentence

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.

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.

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.

Rebels of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, engaged in a stunning offensive against the Syrian government, announced Sunday they had captured the key city of Homs.

The advance continued at pace, with Syria's third city, Homs, falling on Saturday shortly before government forces also lost control of the capital.

The rebels swiftly took control of several strategic cities within days, starting from second city Aleppo, then central Hama and Homs before marching on the capital.

This refusal led the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to give the implicit green light to militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) last month to mount its stunningly successful attacks on Aleppo, and more recently into the city of Homs.

We are pleased to see the flag of Free Syria and its crescent star in Aleppo, Damascus, and Homs.