Islamist rebels have been advancing through large swathes of the country's north-west in the past week, threatening the rule ...
Two rebel groups are leading the push. One is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ( HTS ), which emerged from al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate.
The belligerents are the last survivors of Syria’s hugely destructive civil war, which began in 2011 as another Arab Spring revolution, with antigovernment protesters demanding Assad leave.
The rebels have set their sights on an area where President Bashar al-Assad’s government has long maintained strength.
Rebel forces moved toward the central city of Hama after taking Aleppo, while the government sent reinforcements to the area.
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A group of Syrian journalists headed toward Hama were hit by an airstrike, killing photographer Anas Alkharboutli.
The leader of Syria’s most powerful insurgent group has toured the seized city of Aleppo in a surprise visit, for the first ...
The rebel command said on Wednesday, it captured a number of towns and villages outside the city. A Britain-based war monitor ...
Syrian rebels battled government forces and allied militia on Wednesday in villages north and east of Hama, a major city ...
Syria’s state news agency reports Syrian troops backed by Syrian and Russian warplanes are fighting fierce battles in the central Hama province, as rebels seek to build on their surprise takeover of ...
Amid a now six-day-old rebel offensive in northwestern Syria against the Assad regime, the U.S. military has backed a Syrian ...