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

Elsewhere, Syrian authorities said their counteroffensive pushed back insurgents attempting to advance to the strategic ...

Islamist-led rebels on Wednesday surrounded Syria's key central city of Hama "from three sides" as they pressed on with a lightening offensive on government-held territory, a war monitor said.

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, ...

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.

Overnight, pro-government reinforcements drove Syrian rebels back from the edge of Hama, a key city whose fall would mark a ...

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