The insurgents had been fighting to reach Hama since Tuesday, to encircle the city from the north, east and west, where they clashed with the Syrian army ... to redraw the map of the region.

Rebel forces, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), are advancing into Aleppo and south towards Hama, just five days after ... a new phase of the 13-year war in Syria. Syria’s military announced ...

The rebels’ rapid advance from their strongholds in northern Syria has seen them take the strategic cities of Aleppo, Hama and Homs, as government forces melted away. Earlier, rebels said they ...