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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports the killings of 132 Alawite civilians, totaling 1,225 civilian deaths as a result of forty-seven separate massacres in western Syria since 6 March.
2025-03-11

The number of civilians reported by one war monitor to be killed in extrajudicial massacres in western Syria rises to 1,068, the majority of whom are Alawites with some Christians reportedly caught in the violence.
2025-03-10

Syrian authorities impose a curfew from 6 pm to 8 am in Homs following a series of protests by Alawite and Shi'ite Muslim minority groups.
2024-12-25

Israel carries out airstrikes in Homs, Syria, killing two civilians and injuring six soldiers and another civilian.
2021-11-24

Several bombings kill at least 40 people in government and Kurdish held territory across Syria, including Tartus, Homs, Al-Hasakah and Damascus. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility.
2016-09-5

Twin bomb blasts hit the Syrian city of Homs with at least 57 people reportedly killed and more than 100 injured. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility.
2016-02-21

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

Rebels in Homs and the Syrian government agree to a local ceasefire that is to include the withdrawal of opposition fighters from the al-Waer neighborhood, the only area of the heavily damaged city still under rebel control. The evacuation is expected to start Wednesday. Residents are hoping to return in the next few days.
2015-12-8

25 people are killed in car bombings in the central Syrian city of Homs.
2014-04-9

2011 Syrian uprising: At least 10 people are killed in clashes in the city of Homs as Arab League monitors continue their inspection of Syria's conflict zones.
2011-12-29