HOMS, SYRIA - JANUARY 9: A view of the destruction at Jouret Ash-Shayyah and Al-Khalidiyah neighbourhoods that were heavily bombed by the forces of the ousted Baath regime in Homs, Syria on January 9, 2025. Homs, which is strategically located at the gateway to the capital Damascus, has been one of the provinces subjected to the most intense bombardment in the civil war. While many points in Homs became the address of anti-regime demonstrations that started in March 2011, the regime forces resorted to all kinds of weapons to suppress these demonstrations. The return of the displaced people of the region was prevented due to the infrastructure in city center was completely destroyed in the first years of the civil war. Ercin Erturk / Anadolu/ABACAPRESS.COM