DAMASCUS - The Syrian army forces engaged in fierce fighting in the central province of Hama against rebel factions, mainly ...

Syrian state SANA news agency on Wednesday said insurgents retreated some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from government-held Hama, ...

Syrian rebels on Wednesday encircled the key central city of Hama "from three sides", a war monitor said, despite a ...

Syrian rebels are advancing on Hama after capturing Aleppo, the country’s second-largest city. They’re challenging President ...

A Syrian photographer working for the German news agency dpa was killed by a fighter jet attack near the Syrian city of Hama, ...

Syrian state SANA news agency on Wednesday said insurgents retreated some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from government-held Hama, ...

A Syrian photographer working for the German press agency DPA has been killed in an airstrike in the Hama countryside, where ...

The belligerents are the last survivors of Syria’s hugely destructive civil war, which began in 2011 as another Arab Spring revolution, with antigovernment protesters demanding Assad leave.

The rebels have set their sights on an area where President Bashar al-Assad’s government has long maintained strength.

Rebel forces moved toward the central city of Hama after taking Aleppo, while the government sent reinforcements to the area.

A group of Syrian journalists headed toward Hama were hit by an airstrike, killing photographer Anas Alkharboutli.

The rebel command said on Wednesday, it captured a number of towns and villages outside the city. A Britain-based war monitor ...