Syrian state media said a five-day security operation in Homs city ended Monday, with a war monitor reporting hundreds of arrests in sweeps mostly targeting neighbourhoods of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community.

Syrian new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa recently met with the Mideast nation's Christian leadership after a string of menacing attacks on religious minorities

Syria’s new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs a day after protests by members of the Alawite minority erupted in gunfire and stirred fears that the country’s fragile peace could break down.

Fighters of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) walk together during what they said was security checks to find "remnants" of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's force, in Wadi al-Dahab neighborhood in Homs, Syria, Jan. 2, 2025.

Syria's Military Operations Command, which overthrew the country's former Baath regime, has launched a “security operation” in central Homs province, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) reported on Thursday.

The forces over the past few weeks have raided and arrested security officials who they said worked under Assad's notorious web of intelligence and security branches

DAMASCUS: Syrian security forces are conducting an operation in Homs city, state media reported on Thursday, with a monitor saying it targeted

Syria's state media announced a five-day operation in Homs city ended on Monday, targeting "weapons depots" and arresting "criminals.

SANA news agency cites a military official saying rebels who ousted longtime President Bashar al-Assad had set up centers in Homs for soldiers and militants to turn in their arms in process carried ou

Bel Trew spent days travelling across Syria – from Aleppo in the north, to the capital Damascus and Deraa in the south – charting a nation coming to terms with the end of decades of brutal rule by the Assads.

The rebels’ path to victory is littered with evidence of Syria’s defeated military. It also reflects the sizable task of trying to put the country back together.