A German court has handed down a life sentence to a Syrian doctor convicted of committing acts of torture as part of Bashar ...

Alaa M was found guilty of crimes committed at military hospitals in Syria at the start of the country's civil war. The ...

A German court sentenced a Syrian doctor, Alaa M., to life in prison for crimes against humanity committed in Syria. The case ...

A German court has sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes in his homeland for killing two people and torturing nine in Syria between 2011 and 2012 ...

This is where a single father and his nine children have made their home, beside the famous 13th-century Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque in Homs, Syria’s third-largest city. They cook in a room ...

To visit the Alawite community of Homs, you have to drive through a checkpoint controlled by masked gunmen from the General Security department of Syria’s new government. Whether those troops ...

HOMS, Syria – Once dubbed the capital of the revolution against Mr Bashar al-Assad, Homs saw some of the fiercest fighting in Syria’s civil war. Now, displaced people are returning to their ...

A girl holds an independence-era Syrian flag out of the window of a bus at the entrance to the central city of Homs — LOUAI BESHARA Once dubbed the capital of the revolution against Bashar al-Assad, ...

The city of Homs in central Syria has long held a unique position in the Syrian psyche. Home to a mix of ethnic groups, it became a symbol of resistance to Bashar al-Assad’s regime in 2011 ...

In central Homs, the marketplace buzzes with people buying fruit and vegetables from vendors in bombed-out buildings riddled with bullet holes. But at the entrance to areas where the city's ...

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 ...