[21] On 28 July, rebels killed six soldiers and captured the "Btesh" checkpoint in Tarabih,[22] located nine kilometers north of Hama military airport.

[1] As the rebels advanced, they were able to cut off the road linking Hama city to a string of government-controlled Christian and Alawite villages in the west of the province.

[25] At the same time, rebels captured the Tall al-Sheyha and the village of Arzeh, killing at least 12 soldiers,[26][27] and placing themselves within 3–4 km of Hama Military Airport.

On 16 August, rebels captured the al-Madajin checkpoint, while they were forced to retreat from al-Shayha village and Tall al-Sheyha due to heavy bombardments on the region.

[33] On 22 August, a rebel brigade commander was killed near the village of al-Shiha, while the Al-Nusra Front sent reinforcements (consisting of two convoys) from Aleppo to the south of Halfaya city.

[36] On 25 August, government troops recaptured the "Btesh" checkpoint but had to abandon it once again due to heavy rebel shelling.

According to a source within Nusra, the Free Syrian Army rejected the idea of storming the Christian majority city of Mhardeh and hence the large number of reinforcements brought from Aleppo.

[41] By this point, the rebel attack on Mhardeh was seen as to have failed following the military counterattack during which government troops recaptured checkpoints along the road leading to Halfaya.

[7] Two days later, the pro-government Al-Masdar News site reported the NDF forces, supported by the reinforcements, repelled a rebel infiltration attempt near the Mhardeh power plant.

[52] With government troops regaining control of these villages and the rebels pushed back, Hama military airport was no longer threatened.

[54] On 11 September, the military made further advances in Halfaya[55] leaving a large part of the area under government control.

[57][58][59] On 13 September, government troops captured a further three towns in Hama province, including Taibet al-Imam, Lweibdah and Zour Abo Zaid, and inflicted "gross losses" among opposition fighters,[60] just two days after they fully recaptured Halfaya.

[68] Over the next two days, government troops regained control of Tall Melh,[69] Tremseh and Jalma[67] after killing at least 29 rebel fighters.

[77][78][79] On 23 October, government forces took back total control of the strategically important city Mork, nine months after it was seized by rebels and their al-Qaeda allies.