Siege of Homs

Syrian war monitor associated with the opposition said on Sept. 9 that over 120 Christian places of worship have been damaged or destroyed by all sides in the country's eight-year conflict.

Syria's regime pounded rebel-held parts of the southern city of Daraa with rockets and barrel bombs overnight causing dozens of families to flee, a monitor and an AFP reporter said Monday.

Russia on May 2 turned down a proposal by Syrian opposition factions for a cease-fire in the northern countryside of Homs province, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported on May 2.

The suffering of Syrian civilians has worsened since the United Nations called for a ceasefire a week ago amid “some of the worst fighting of the entire conflict”, the United Nations resident and humanitarian coordinator said on Feb. 12.

Fresh regime strikes on Syria’s besieged rebel-held enclave near Damascus killed 35 civilians on Feb. 6, according to monitors.

At least 8 people were killed and nearly 10 people were injured in an explosion of a minibus in the Syrian city of Homs, 24chasa reports.

The heaviest fighting and shelling for months hit Hama province in northern Syria on Aug. 4, a war monitor said, but there were diverging accounts of how the battle started.

A journalist of Russia Today was murdered in the Syrian province of Homs during an attack by "Islamic State," the World Agencies said, quoted by Mediapool.

The last buses carrying rebel fighters and their families left  a besieged district of Syria's Homs yesterday, completing a deal to bring the whole city back under government control for the first time since the start of the war.

Syrian rebels said on May 3 they were suspending participation in a latest round of peace talks aimed at pushing a Russian plan for "de-escalation zones" in the war-torn country.