Images shared by Syria's state-run news agency showed blood on carpets, holes in the walls, shattered windows and fire damage.

Hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday in the rain and cold outside of a mosque in the Syrian city of Homs for the funeral of eight people killed in a bombing, as an imam warned that the attack could spark more sectarian violence.

The attack on the Alawite Mosque is an organisational signalling more concerned with delegitimising and undermining the Syrian regime’s efforts and narratives of “new Syria"

Thousands in coastal provinces and central Syria participated in demonstrations called by a religious authority to protest the mosque attack in Homs.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres “unequivocally condemns” the deadly terrorist attack on a mosque in Homs, Syria during Friday prayers, his spokesperson said in a statement

The explosion in Homs targeted a predominantly Alawite area, a sect that has faced crackdowns and violence since the fall of former-President Bashar al-Assad.

An explosion killed at least eight worshippers at a mosque in a predominantly Alawite area of Syria's Homs on Friday, state media said, with an Islamist militant group claiming responsibility.

Eight people were killed in an explosion at a mosque of the Alawite minority sect in the Syrian city of Homs on Friday, Syrian state news agency SANA said.

DAMASCUS, Syria(AP) — The killing of a husband and wife from a Bedouin tribe in Syria’s Homs province on Sunday triggered renewed sectarian tensions. The bodies were found at their home in the town of Zaidal, “with signs that the wife had been burned ...

Syrian authorities did not identify a perpetrator in the blast, which occurred in an area of Homs where most residents belong to the Alawite religious minority.