A source at
Homs Police Command told SANA reporter that a patrol of
Homs Criminal Security Branch discovered weapons , ammunition , and three cars without plates inside a house in a village in
Homs.
The Syrian Army backed by Russian air force has reinforced its military points on the hills overlooking al-Aqirbat and al-Balas regions as well as their surrounding areas in Eastern
Homs, the Arabic-language website of the Russian Sputnik News Agency quoted a Syrian Army battlefield commander in Eastern
Homs as saying.
Homs Governor Talal al-Barazi said more than 1,500 fighters and their relatives had left.
BEIRUT: Exhausted and worn out from a nearly two-year-long siege, hundreds of Syrian rebels Wednesday left their last remaining bastions in the heart of the city of
Homs under a cease-fire deal with government forces.
Later in the morning, two of the buses left
Homs and headed north.
The deal reached on
Homs, Syria's third-largest city, follows a series of military gains by the regime around the capital, Damascus, and in the country's vital center.
But he said negotiators would also raise the issue of bringing humanitarian aid convoys to
Homs.
Syrian army air strikes in the central city of
Homs on Sunday killed three civilians, as regime forces pressed forward with a new bid to retake several rebel-controlled districts, a watchdog said.
A spokesman for the Coordination Committee in
Homs told Gulf News by phone that it will be very dangerous for residents to wait till the outcome of the Arab League meeting in Cairo on Saturday.
"Thirteen civilians were killed yesterday and today in several parts of
Homs when the army opened fire as it carried out an operation in the city" to quash dissent, said the head of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reached by telephone from Nicosia.