Areas of Syria's Hama province captured by Syrian insurgents came under heavy air attack on Thursday as government forces sought to counter a major rebel assault in an area of strategic importance to Bashar al-Assad. The rebel thrust in Hama marks a new challenge to Assad and his allies in a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance factions mad new advances in Hama province on Wednesday, taking Soran town from Syrian regime locations there, local sources reported. Resistance factions have killed scores of regime fighters in the battle launched last Monday in northern Hama province. The...

 Syrian rebels have captured a strategic town in northern Hama province in a major offensive that threatens government loyalist towns populated by minority Christians and Alawites north of the provincial capital, rebels and a monitor said on Tuesday. The town of Halfaya was stormed on...

 Russia's politically-sensitive and ultimately fruitless decision to launch bombing missions on Syria from Iranian soil has exposed the limits to its air power, leaving Moscow in need of a new strategy to advance its aims. People familiar with Russia's military said Moscow opted...