Syrian city is recorded on a relatively quiet as Governor calls for unity against Al Qaeda and the intense fighting continues elsewhere
A year after the city has captured the world's attention as the victim of the worst attack in the Syrian civil war had yet seen, Homs again - shelter - relatively. Hundreds of families have fled to other Syrian cities last February in fear of their goods are loaded and returned. Civil Aleppo and Deir el-Zour - where fighting is still intense - move to Homs, because they have heard that it is more livable
"is the case I've seen in Syria, where people are back after a long shift. Homs Damascus may be quieter" Erksoussi Khaled, head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent team intervention emergency in the capital told me before leaving in the car 100 miles to the north. He was right. The boom of heavy bombardment, quickly followed by the singing of birds in a panic, repeatedly fills the sky Damascus. He was in full throat and kill again when I returned. However, for 24 hours in Homs just heard explosions, apparently directed to targets beyond the ring road. In the city center, street markets are filled with consumers. Groups of students within and outside the university, or standing chatting. Checkpoints in several intersections create less congestion, but the soldiers seem relaxed and superficial, such as identity cards and car boots verification undoubtedly happy to be assigned menial tasks instead of being sent in areas of risk and remotely. Homs has an even number of armed women in uniform who have volunteered for creating new guard house.
Homs is the third largest city of Syria and local officials estimate about 150,000 of its 2.3 million people have left and not returned. In human terms, the figure is huge, but it is an exodus proportionately lower in Damascus or Aleppo suffered.
strategic position in the city center of the city belt Syria means that the government could not let you down and cut the country in two. Minority Alawites, Assad ruling family that has long been regarded as its capital. Thus the army when the first rebel against fierce attack last year Baba Amr district captured and were about to take control of several parts of the city.
Now, the Syrian army is to regain control of a large part of the guardians of the city and took me in without armed escort, but there were four of them, including a man which is presented as a local journalist and a note of all my conversations.
Most shops along the street Musab bin Zubair, one of the main streets were closed and the facades of the upper floors are riddled with bullets and mortar, but life is slowly returning . Children cycling in the streets largely empty and some old red and white checkered headdress sitting on chairs outside their doors.
"When people see us living here, they get courage and start back," said Sahar Rahmoun, a woman who was returning home with his young daughter in front of a ruined mosque. He had escaped from the house of her sister in another part of Homs, at the height of the bombing last year, he said.
Despite the advance of the army in other areas, the narrow streets of the old city of Homs remain in rebel hands. They are surrounded by government jobs and are considered to have little strategic value. This is perhaps one of the reasons so far not been serious attacks.
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