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 ...

Syrian rebels announced they gained full control over the key city of Homs early on Sunday after only a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule dangling by a thread as ...

Syrian opposition fighters passed ... President Bashar al-Assad's defense, smoothing the rebels’ path as they took the cities of Hama and Homs and then entered the capital, Damascus, saying ...

The rebels’ rapid advance from their strongholds in northern Syria has seen them take the strategic cities of Aleppo, Hama and Homs, as government forces melted away. Earlier, rebels said they ...

BEIRUT—Syrian rebels were poised to take control of the strategic city of Hama on Thursday, dealing a serious blow to President Bashar al-Assad and his allies Russia and Iran and raising the ...

Syrians are returning home to former frontline villages, only to find them riddled with landmines and unexploded ordnance.

The Islamist-led rebels were at the gates of Syria's Homs, a war monitor said, after wresting other key cities from government control. In little over a week, the offensive has seen Syria's second ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli jets targeted former Syrian army outposts in the central Homs province, two security sources said on Tuesday. The jets bombed army fortifications in the villages of ...

PREMIUM Foreign Jihadists Helped Syria’s Rebels Take Power. Now They’re a Problem ... The attacks occurred in a coastal area home to Syria’s Alawites, a minority group to which the Assad ...

Now the focus is on whether the transfer of power from the Assad government to the rebel forces will take place peacefully ... and eastern Syria. Syrian rebels in Homs celebrate the departure ...

The United States will continue to maintain its presence in eastern Syria and will take measures necessary ... Speaking hours after Syrian rebels announced they had toppled Bashar al-Assad's ...