HOMS, SYRIA - JANUARY 9: Return of the civilians has started in 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. Ercin Erturk / Anadolu/ABACAPRESS.COM