Syrian rebels were closing in on Homs after seizing two other major cities in a lightning offensive that has reignited the civil war after more than a decade and thrown the future of President ...

Syrian rebels have driven government forces from Hama, a major city that the country’s regime had held over more than a decade of civil war, further weakening President Bashar al-Assad’s grip ...

Thousands of people fled the central Syrian city ... country's third largest, as insurgents seized two towns on the outskirts Friday, positioning themselves for an assault on a potentially major ...

Residents in the Syrian capital were seen cheering ... Homs lies about 140km from the capital and was the third major city seized by the rebels, who began their advance on Nov 27, reigniting ...

Syrian opposition fighters passed ... The speed of the rebels' advance, which began when they took the city of Aleppo a little over a week ago, has been enabled by what the U.S. special envoy ...

Thousands of Syrian insurgents took over most of Aleppo on Saturday, establishing positions in the country's largest city and controlling its airport before expanding their shock offensive to a ...

Rebels captured Syria's second-largest city, Aleppo, over the weekend and ... President Bashar al-Assad's forces. Airstrikes by Syrian and allied Russian warplanes have killed 56 people in Aleppo ...

Israel's military entered the buffer zone between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights on Sunday, in a move it said was necessary to defend its border after armed personnel it didn't identify ...