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 celebrated on the streets of Hama after the Syrian military pulled ... which the rebels captured last week after launching a surprise offensive from their stronghold in the north ...

The Syrian army retreated to minimize civilian casualties. This strategic city's capture, situated between Aleppo and Damascus, potentially opens a path south for the rebels. Hama holds historical ...

AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) -Syrian rebels captured the city of Hama on Thursday, a major victory in a week-old lightning advance across northern Syria and a devastating new blow to President Bashar ...

and its capture would open the road for a rebel advance on Homs, the main central city that functions as a crossroads connecting Syria's most populous regions. Hama is also critical to the control ...

Syrian rebels have captured the city of Hama... a major victory in a week-old lightning advance across northern Syria... and a devastating new blow to President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and ...

(photo credit: REUTERS/Mahmoud Hasano) Syrian rebels advancing against government forces pushed close on Tuesday to the major city of Hama, rebels and a war monitor said after their sudden capture ...

Syrian state media also said troops had pushed back the rebels north of the city ... said that five more villages east of Hama had been captured, as well as a base of the 25th Special Mission ...

The capture of Hama, Syria’s fourth largest city ... when a brutal Russian air campaign retook it for Assad after rebel forces had initially seized it. Intervention by Russia, Iran and Iranian ...

Syria's interim rulers are trying to form a united national army after the fall of Bashar Assad late last year.