US EditionSyrian rebels enter Hama as army announces departure from key city
- Syrian rebels captured the city of Hama on Thursday after the Syrian army withdrew from the strategically important and symbolic central city.
- The fall of Hama will send shockwaves through the capital Damascus and fears of a continued rebel march south.
- Militant forces led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham moved into Hama on Thursday, representatives of HTS and the Syrian government told NBC News.
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Syrians are torn between fear and hope as the frontlines rapidly shift
The lightning-fast capture, by Syrian rebels, of large swaths of northern Syria, including the war-torn country’s second-largest city, Aleppo, and the strategically important city of Hama further south, is a body blow for the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The rebels are now pushing on further south towards my home city of Homs. When these cities fell to Assad – Aleppo fell in 2017 – it was seen as spelling the end of Syria’s popular revolt agains…
Syrian rebels capture key city of Hama in fresh blow to Assad - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
AMMAN/BEIRUT — 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.
The aim of the rebels led by the Islamists of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is to “overthrow” the regime of Bashar al-Assad, said HTS chief Abu Mohammed al-Jolani in an interview with CNN on Friday.
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