Cities across Syria have been pulverised by a decade and a half of civil war. Syrians are quite literally picking up the pieces now that Bashar al-Assad and his government have been removed. Hama ...

Syrian rebel forces entered the central city of Hama on Thursday after a two-day battle, marking another major territorial gain in their week-long offensive against the forces loyal to Damascus ...

Hama is 110km (70 ... week of rebel advances in Syria President Assad has vowed to “crush” the rebels and accused Western powers of trying to redraw the map of the region, while his key ...

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 ...