The war on the besieged city is fateful, Head of Homs Local council said in a message delivered to the national Council and to the Chiefs of Staff 5 days ago; losing the city will be big loss to the revolution and to the opposition, losing the war will be...

    Backed by Lebanese Hezbollah militants, Syrian troops unleashed some of the civil war's heaviest bombardments on the central city of Homs on Friday, pounding opposition-held areas with artillery and airstrikes for the sixth straight day, activists said to AP....

National Coalition renewed the pleas to the international community to take action to protect civilians in the embattled city of Homs. The Syrian National Coalition on Friday appealed to the United Nations and Western countries that have supported the opposition in Syria's civil...

Gulf Arab states called on the U.N. Security Council on Monday to meet urgently to prevent a massacre in Homs, as pro-government forces in  Syria  try to wrest the city from rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad. Assad's army and allied fighters launched an...