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At least 30 pro-government militia forces and soldiers are killed in a series of attacks by the Islamic State (IS) near the cities of Deir ez-Zor, Homs, and Raqqa, with Russian airstrikes targeting the IS positions in response.
2023-11-8

Eleven soldiers and two civilians are killed in an attack on a bus travelling from Raqqa to Homs. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for the attack.
2022-06-20

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that militants attacked two Syrian Armed Forces bases in Homs, killing at least 42 people, including a senior intelligence officer.
2017-02-25

At least 32 people are killed and 90 injured following a car bomb and suicide-bomb attack in the al-Zahra district of the Syrian city of Homs.
2015-12-28

Sixteen people are killed and many more injured by a car bomb and a second, delayed explosion near a hospital in Syria's mainly Alawite, government-controlled neighborhood of al-Zahra, east of Homs' old city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports. The attack comes just five days after the government and rebels agreed on a local ceasefire in the western al-Waer suburb.
2015-12-12

Russia begins airstrikes against anti-government targets in Syria following a request from President Bashar al-Assad. A U.S. official said the air attack struck near the Syrian city of Homs, where the official said ISIS currently does not have a major presence.
2015-09-30

Syrian rebels attack a militia checkpoint in Homs, killing 5 from the NDF militia but 6 civilians nearby as well.
2013-08-17

17 people are killed and 26 wounded in a mortar attack in the government-held district of Homs and the town of Dablan
2013-07-30

The Syrian army launches intensive air strikes on Homs following the rebel's capture of the Baba Amr district.
2013-03-12

A mortar attack destroys a school in the small city of Bteeha, on the road to Homs north of the capital. According to the state news agency SANA at least 29 are killed, while activists report 9 deaths.
2012-12-4