Hama is strategically located at a key crossroads in western-central Syria, providing direct supply lines between the capital Damascus and Aleppo. Rebels had been unable to capture the city since ...

Syrian Rebels Capture Key City of Hama in Fresh Blow to Assad By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Timour Azhari AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) -Syrian rebels captured the city of Hama on Thursday, a major victory ...

Rebels dealt another blow to the Syrian government by capturing a city ... as the Iranians are. The capture of Hama comes as part of the opposition's lightning-fast offensive down Northwestern ...

The takeover of Hama follows at the heels of the rebels’ capture last week of Aleppo, Syria’s industrial center, in a lightning offensive that upended a years-old stalemate between Assad’s ...

A significant shift in Syria’s civil war occurred as the Syrian army lost control of the strategic city of Hama to rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. This defeat follows the recent capture of ...

Now Islamist insurgents have captured ... the rebels be able to seize Homs, which they now have a shot at doing after seizing Hama, then they could theoretically have grabbed" three of Syria's ...

Syrian rebels have driven government forces from Hama, a major city that the country’s regime had held over more than a decade of civil war, further weakening President Bashar al-Assad’s grip ...