Islamist-led rebels have captured Hama, a city strategically located between Aleppo and President Bashar al-Assad’s seat of ...
Thousands of people fled the central Syrian city of Homs overnight and into Friday morning, a war monitor and residents said, ...
The goal of Syria’s rebel coalition, as it wrests another major city from government control this week, is ultimately to ...
Syria’s army ceded control of the city of Hama to advancing rebel forces, increasing the threat to President Bashar ...
A senior commander told NBC News that tanks had been used during the incursion and that rebels had freed hundreds of ...
It has been thirteen years since Bashar al-Assad triggered a civil war which would kill hundreds of thousands of people and devastate Syria. Recent events have shown just how far his rule has ...
The war broke out in 2011, when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ’s regime violently suppressed protests that had spread ...
Capturing Hama would leave just one major city, Homs, in government hands on the road from rebel-held northern Syria to ...
When Syria’s rebels captured Aleppo late last week, it sent tremors through the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Those tremors have ...
Why it matters: The rapid advance of the rebels — who captured the city of Hama on Thursday, days after taking Aleppo — could ...
Assad’s regime has been placed squarely into question. A coalition of armed opposition factions has gone on the offensive in northern Syria, capturing some 250 cities, towns, and villages and more ...
Syrian insurgents have swept into the central city of Hama after days of intense clashes with government forces.