This marked the fourth city in a week that the rebels managed to take before also reportedly taking Homs. Meanwhile, Russia, an ally to Syria, has its focus on Ukraine amid the ongoing war between ...

The fall of Homs gives the insurgents control over Syria ... of the rebels. Qatar’s top diplomat, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, criticized Assad for failing to take advantage ...

Syrian rebels claim to have captured a fifth city ... that it’s “pretty much the endgame for Assad” if the rebels take Homs. “Once they get Homs, then really Damascus is cut off and ...

Late on Friday, the rebels claimed to have seized the last village on the outskirts of Homs city, saying they are at the city walls. The goal of Syria’s rebel coalition, which has wrested two ...

Syrian rebels are speeding toward the major city of Homs, where residents are fleeing ... just as rebel forces move apace to take control of yet another major city from the regime this week.

Syrian rebels overtook the western city of Hama, their second major victory since they swept Aleppo last week, as thousands fled the city of Homs ahead of the Islamist insurgents. The rebel group ...

Syrian rebels captured the key city of Homs on Saturday after less than a ... said in a statement that rebels were poised to take the whole country, promising “the end of the criminal regime ...

If Homs falls, we are talking of a potential change of regime,” said Jihad Yazigi, editor of the Syria Report newsletter. Hassan Abdul Ghani, commander of the HTS-led rebel coalition forces ...

And it placed the rebels about 25 miles north of the city of Homs, a junction leading to the Syrian coast and to Lebanon ... Daher said of HTS. It would take more time to gauge the group ...

Sitting in the police headquarters of Homs, in an office ... people to join the rebel factions – was executed in 2015 in the notorious Sednaya prison, known as Syria’s “slaughterhouse”.

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Many people want to determine the fates of loved ones who disappeared into a notorious military prison that was a symbol of human rights abuses under President Bashar al-Assad. By Matthew Mpoke ...