Since the Assad regime fell after more than 50 years in power, the extent of Syria ... of the Atassi Gallery, which Shireen’s mother Mona ran from the 1980s to 2010 in Homs and later Damascus.

The Greek-Catholic archbishop of Homs, Jean-Abdo Arbach, condemned the massacres of civilians that occurred in Syria last weekend — which left at least 1,000 dead — and urged Christians to ...

In the heart of Homs, Syria’s third-largest city, the new Clock Square, nestled between the governorate building, the Teachers' Syndicate, and the Atassi Tower, reflects a slow yet noticeable ...

And in his new book Sumac: Recipes And Stories From Syria (£25, Murdoch Books), food writer Anas Atassi takes us on a joyride through the unsung delights of his home country’s cuisine.

To visit the Alawite community of Homs, you have to drive through a checkpoint controlled by masked gunmen from the General Security department of Syria’s new government. Whether those troops ...