Syrian rebels were closing in on Homs after seizing two other major cities in a lightning offensive that has reignited the civil war after more than a decade and thrown the future of President ...

Syrian rebels were closing in on Homs after seizing two other major cities in a lightning offensive ... Syrian government forces withdrew from the city of Hama on Thursday, handing the rebels ...

Syrian rebel commander Hassan Abdul Ghany said early on Sunday that insurgent forces "fully liberated" Syria's central city of Homs ... speed as rebels seized a string of major cities and ...

Syrian rebels ousted ... Hama lies more than a third of the way from Aleppo to Damascus, and its capture would open the road for a rebel advance on Homs, the main central city that functions ...

Syrian rebels battled government forces for control of the key city of Homs on Saturday and ... dizzying speed as insurgents seized a string of major cities and rose up in places where the ...

Syrian rebels overtook the western city of Hama, their second major victory since they swept ... around 3 miles north of Homs, Syria's third largest city, according to the Syrian Observatory ...

The Syrian military has said it has withdrawn from the major ... inside the city. Hama is home to about one million people and is 110km (70 miles) south of Aleppo, which the rebels captured ...

It stands at an important intersection between Damascus, the capital, and Syria’s coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus — the Syrian ... city’s capture was a major victory for the rebels ...

(CNN) — 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 ...