Syrian rebels advanced toward Hama on December 1 as regime forces “sent large reinforcement” to the governorate, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported.Rebel forces captured the towns of Kafr Zita,

Eight years ago, Syria’s civil war shifted in President Bashar Al-Assad’s favor after a Russian blitzkrieg on Aleppo helped him regain control over the country’s second biggest city.

Syrian rebel forces arrived at the gates of the key city of Hama on Tuesday, as their fighting with the military sparked "a large wave of displacement", a war monitor said. The Britain-based Observatory,