00:00Insurgents in Syria led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group are advancing on Homs as they
00:07make their way towards Damascus in a bid to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.
00:12HTS has seized two towns on the outskirts of Homs, the latest in a lightning advance
00:18over the past week which has seen them take Aleppo and Hama in the face of little resistance
00:23by government forces.
00:25Pressure on the Assad government is intensifying on multiple fronts in Syria.
00:29In the east, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said they had moved into the government-held
00:34half of the city of Deir el-Zor apparently without resistance.
00:38At the same time, insurgents seized Syria's soul crossing to Jordan.
00:43After years of largely being bottled up in the northwest, the rebels burst out a week
00:47ago and have been advancing ever since.
00:50The sudden offensive has flipped the tables on a long-entrenched stalemate in Syria's
00:54nearly 14-year-old civil war.
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