Homs

[ hawms ]

noun

1. a city in W Syria.

Homs

/ hɒms; hʊms /

noun

1. a city in W Syria, near the Orontes River: important in Roman times as the capital of Phoenicia-Lebanesia. Pop: 915 000 (2005 est) Ancient nameEmesaˈɛmɛsə Former nameHims

Example Sentences

The prosecutor alleged that Hamo had participated in the division’s indiscriminate attacks on military and civilian targets in and around the Syrian cities of Homs and Hama.

From Seattle Times

The plaintiffs included a man whose brother was killed in attacks on Homs, as well as a British and a French journalist — Edith Bouvier and Paul Conroy — who were injured in an attack on a media center in Baba Amr in February 2012.

From Seattle Times

Um Omar, a Syrian refugee from Homs, works in a grocery store in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli — an impoverished community that once warmly welcomed Syrian refugees.

From Seattle Times

Syria's central Badia desert served as a "logistics and operations hub", with between 500 and 600 fighters forming a triangle linking the provinces of Deir al-Zour in the east, Suweida in the south, and Homs in the west, it said.

From BBC

In August 2001, hundreds gathered in the Syrian city of Homs, Mr. Turk’s birthplace, to hear him speak as the secretary general of the outlawed Syrian Communist Party’s political bureau, a breakaway faction that opposed the party’s subservience to the Soviet Union and Hafez al-Assad, who had died the year before.

From New York Times