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00:00After capturing Syria's second city Aleppo on Sunday, on Thursday morning insurgent forces
00:07entered the city of Hama, having encircled it from three different locations.
00:12The rebels hastened to announce on telegram their first war booty, the city's central
00:17prison where they freed hundreds of detainees.
00:21These pictures, filmed by France 24, show the rebels on the outskirts of Hama on Wednesday.
00:26The bodies of soldiers from Bashar al-Assad's army litter the streets, while the rebels
00:31celebrate taking their tanks and equipment.
00:34The insurgency has been led by the Islamist group HTS, as well as an umbrella group of
00:39Turkish-backed Syrian militias called the Syrian National Army.
00:44Their leader, Abiy Mohammed al-Jilani, a former al-Qaeda member, has urged a conquest with
00:50no revolt and warned Iraq's paramilitary coalition, which has mobilised along the border, not
00:56to intervene.
00:57The revolutionaries began entering Hama to sanitise up the wound that has been left in
01:02Syria for 40 years.
01:03I ask God Almighty that it be a conquest in which there is no revolt.
01:08The United Nations says the flare-up in fighting has displaced more than 115,000 people.
01:14According to Moscow, Russia and Iran, as supporters of Assad's regime, and Turkey, which supports
01:21the rebels, are in close contact to stabilise the situation.