Syrian rebels were closing in on Homs after seizing two other major ... the city of Hama on Thursday, handing the rebels another victory after they seized Aleppo last week. The rebel advances ...

Syrian rebels said ... the government-held city of Aleppo in a startling offensive that was the first time in nearly a decade that insurgents had breached the country’s largest city.

Syrian rebel ... Since the rebels' sweep into Aleppo a week ago, government defenses have crumbled at dizzying speed as rebels seized a string of major cities and reignited a rebellion in places ...

As insurgents raced across Syria in a surprise offensive launched in the country’s northwest late last year, officials from ...

Syrian rebels said on Thursday they had started pushing into Hama, a major city ... than a third of the way from Aleppo to Damascus, and its capture would open the road to a rebel advance in ...

Syrian rebel forces advanced on the central city ... three Syrian sources told journalists on the ground. It was the third major city, after Aleppo and Hama in the northwest and centre, to fall ...

The night before, opposition forces took the central city of Homs, Syria’s third largest ... Latakia and Tartus. The advances in the past week were by far the largest in recent years by ...

DO NOT GET INVOLVED!" The pace of the rebels’ advance in Syria has been astonishing. They are now fighting to seize the country’s third-largest city, Homs, a strategic hub connecting the ...

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They seized Hama, to the north of Homs, on Thursday - a second major ... city. The SOHR said Russian warplanes had bombed a bridge in nearby Rastan to try and slow the rebel advance. After the ...

The rebels had dreamt of this day for years, but even they appear to have been surprised by the speed and ease of their advance ... to govern the major cities – including Syria’s second ...

Islamist rebels have reportedly taken control of a second major ... Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has also confirmed the "majority" of the city was now in rebel hands. The advance ...