The central city of Homs, Syria's third-largest, sits around 40km (25 miles) away and is likely to be the insurgents' next target.
Syrian rebels have captured the central city of Hama in the latest blow to President Bashar al Assad. The Syrian army said it had withdrawn and taken up positions outside the city to protect civilians, hours after opposition fighters said they were marching towards its centre. The insurgents said they had entered Syria's fourth-largest city on Thursday after days of intense fighting with government forces on its outskirts.
'If Hama falls, it means that the beginning of the regime's fall has started,' the monitor's chief, Rami Abdurrahman, said before the city was captured. Hama is one of the few cities that remained under Mr Assad's control during Syria's civil war, which erupted in 2011 following a popular uprising. The central city of Homs, Syria's third-largest, is around 40km away and is likely to be the rebels' next target.
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