Two rebel groups are leading the push. One is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ( HTS ), which emerged from al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate.

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 leader of Syria’s most powerful insurgent group has toured the seized city of Aleppo in a surprise visit, for the first ...

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 ...

Syria’s state news agency reports Syrian troops backed by Syrian and Russian warplanes are fighting fierce battles in the central Hama province, as rebels seek to build on their surprise takeover of ...

Amid a now six-day-old rebel offensive in northwestern Syria against the Assad regime, the U.S. military has backed a Syrian ...

With Syrian rebels having taken control of Aleppo, there are questions about what is next for Syria and the many actors with stakes there.

A war monitor and state media say that Syrian government forces have launched a counterattack against Islamist-led rebels who ...