Syrian rebels claim to reach key city of Homs while, in east, sources say US-backed Syrian Kurds seize eastern city of Deir el-Zor
Beirut, Lebanon/Amman, Jordan/Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Syrian rebel forces said on Friday their lightning advance reached the central city of Homs, which could position the insurgents to topple another town strategic to President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on power. “Our forces have liberated the last village on the outskirts of the city of Homs and […]
Syrian rebels capture key city of Hama in fresh blow to Assad
Amman, Jordan/Beirut, Lebanon Reuters Syrian rebels captured the city of Hama on Thursday, a major victory in a week-old lightning advance across northern Syria and a devastating new blow to President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies. After years locked behind frozen frontlines, the rebels have burst forth to mount the swiftest battlefield […]
Syrian military and rebels battle around Hama
Amman, Jordan Reuters Syrian rebels battled government forces and allied militia on Wednesday in villages north and east of Hama, a major city whose capture would pile pressure on President Bashar al-Assad. The rebels have staged their biggest advance in years over the past week, seizing Aleppo – Syria’s biggest city before the war – […]
Syrian rebels advance close to Hama city, piling pressure on Assad and his allies
Beirut, Lebanon/Amman, Jordan Reuters Syrian rebels advancing against government forces pushed close on Tuesday to the major city of Hama, rebels and a war monitor said, after their sudden capture of Aleppo last week rocked President Bashar al-Assad. Rebels and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said insurgents had captured villages including Maar […]
After quake, Syria’s northern coast ravaged by wildfires
Mashquita, Syria Reuters At 72, Syrian farmer Izzadin Zuhaira has survived war, displacement and a devastating earthquake in February. But the forest fires razing his home province of Latakia last week, turning his beloved orchards to ash, were the worst he had seen. “I’ve never seen any weather like this. The soil and the trees […]
Earthquake leaves Syrians across frontlines with shared catastrophe
Beirut, Lebanon Reuters On one side of Syria’s civil war, a man in army fatigues carried a lifeless child’s ashen body from the rubble of a shattered building in the government-held city of Hama. Across a frontline on another side of Syria, a rescue worker in the white helmet and black-yellow vest of the Syrian […]
“Starvation on the way”: Border crossing decision weighs on northwest Syria
Idlib, Syria Reuters Hussein Mahmoud, a displaced farmer from Syria’s Hama province who now lives in a camp in northern Idlib, divides the basic items in a food basket he receives monthly amongst his wife and 13 children. By mid-month, the bread, rice, lentils and other essentials he gets as aid are nearly scarce but […]