Taking Homs would bring the rebels one step closer capturing the capital Damascus, and toppling president Assad's government. What happens to your body if you eat eggs every day? ANSWERS TO ...

The fall of Homs gives the insurgents control over Syria's strategic heartland and a key highway crossroads, severing Damascus from the coastal region that is the stronghold of Assad's Alawite ...

The military’s expanded perch on the peak of Mount Hermon, straddling the so-called disengagement zone, gives Israel clear sightlines to the Syrian capital, Damascus, 25 miles away. Israeli ...

How many drowned in the seas?" the top rebel commander, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, told a huge crowd at the medieval Umayyad Mosque in central Damascus, referring to refugees who died trying to reach ...

Now, the rebels have set their sights on the city of Homs, a strategic chokepoint between rebel-controlled areas in the north and the capital, Damascus. If they are able to seize it, it could be a ...

AMMAN/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Syrian rebels announced they gained full control over the key city of Homs early on Sunday after only a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-Assad’s 24-year ...

They have now set their sights on Homs. And as anti-regime offensives gather pace both to the north and south of the capital Damascus, Kurdish-led fighters say they have moved into eastern parts ...

Opposition fighters have taken over Hama, a major city on the road to the capital, Damascus The speed with which the status quo in Syria - however unresolved and unsatisfactory - has been turned ...

Syrian rebels announced they gained full control over the key city of Homs early on Sunday after only a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule dangling by a thread as ...

It straddles a crossroads that leads west to the heartland of support for the Assad dynasty and south towards the capital, Damascus. Whatever the previous strategy of HTS may have been ...