Assad’s fall, at least 64 kidnappings and executions have been recorded in Homs, a major city in central Syria. Most victims are Alawites, the religious minority tied to the Assad family.

Homs, SANA-With the coming of the holy month of Ramadan, Homs markets are witnessing active movement by citizens who seek to secure their needs and requirements in light of the availability of all kinds of goods and a noticeable decrease in their prices compared to last year.

Fierce clashes over the past two days between security forces under Syria’s new Islamist government and gunmen belonging to the country’s Alawite religious minority killed scores of people, marking the most widespread violence since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

A completed story, reported and edited, may obscure a regular feature of journalists’ lives: that they really don’t know at the outset where reporting will lead. That was true for the Monitor’s Taylor Luck and his assistant,