An anti-government fighter remotely fires rockets against regime forces on the outskirts of Hama - Bakr Al Kassem/AFP via Getty Images Syrian rebels captured the key city of Hama on Thursday in a ...

Syrian rebels on Wednesday encircled the key central city of Hama "from three sides", a war monitor said, despite a counteroffensive launched by government forces to retain control of the city.

Capturing Hama would leave just one major city, Homs, in government hands on the road from rebel-held northern Syria to Damascus.

Hama is a major intersection point in Syria that links that country’s center with the north as well the east and the west. It is about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the capital, Damascus ...

BEIRUT—The Syrian government said it was pulling military forces from the city of Hama, a major strategic and symbolic prize, following fierce fighting with rebels who launched a dramatic ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian army has withdrawn from the central city of Hama after insurgents broke through its defenses, the military said Thursday, in another setback for President Bashar Assad.

Islamist rebels took the Syrian city of Hama Thursday from the forces of the secularist President Bashar al-Assad. Fighting between the rebels and Assad’s Syrian Arab Army had been occurring on ...

Hama is one of the few cities that remained under full government control during Syria’s conflict, which broke out in March 2011. Its capture would be a major setback for President Bashar Assad.

Syrian insurgents entered the central city of Hama Thursday after days of intense clashes with government forces as they push forward with their weeklong offensive that brought large parts of ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria said Wednesday its counteroffensive has pushed back insurgents attempting to advance to the strategic central city of Hama, while the insurgency says it captured more Syrian ...