On a shopping street close to the famous Homs Clock Tower, a small, elderly man is peering at socks hanging in a window, decorated with misshapen faces of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad and his ...

Home to a mix of ethnic groups, it became a symbol of resistance to Bashar al-Assad’s regime in 2011, when activists gathered around the clock tower that stands at its centre before the dictator ...

Protesters created their own makeshift version of the Homs Clock Tower here and Abdul Baset al-Sarout – known as the “singer of the revolution” – performed, Daher remembers.