1 day ago · More than 1,000 people have been killed in Tartus and Latakia Provinces since the fighting erupted last week, the observatory said early on Sunday. About 700 civilians were included in that figure ...

3 days ago · Clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad in the country’s coastal region have left more than 70 people dead and the area outside government control. Government forces sent major reinforcements overnight to the cities of Latakia and Tartus as well as nearby towns and villages, state media reported.

11 hours ago · Last week the coastal governorates of Latakia and Tartus witnessed coordinated attacks by remnants of the Assad regime. These were the most intense assaults since the regime's collapse, targeting ...

2 days ago · In February, Sharaa appeared to receive a hero’s welcome during his first visit to Latakia and Tartus. Video showed him waving from a balcony as crowds cheered below.

3 days ago · A curfew was imposed until Saturday in the coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus, heartland of the ousted president’s Alawite religious minority, and authorities on Friday announced a security ...

2 days ago · Syrian security forces are alleged to have executed dozens of people belonging to the Alawite minority in the coastal province of Latakia, according to a war monitoring group. The British-based ...

Tartus (Arabic: طَرْطُوس / ALA-LC: Ṭarṭūs; known in the County of Tripoli as Tortosa and also transliterated from French Tartous) is a major port city on the Mediterranean coast of Syria. [4] It is the second largest port city in Syria (after Latakia), and the largest city in …

3 days ago · The fighting and reprisal killings were centered in Syria’s coastal region of Latakia, a heartland for the Alawite sect, and spilled into neighboring Homs and Tartus provinces, demographically ...

Dec 16, 2024 · HMEIMIM, Syria (AP) — A convoy of Russian military vehicles rolled down the highway towards the Syrian city of Tartus on Monday as soldiers stood guard. Planes periodically descended and rose from Russia’s Hmeimim air base in the Syrian coastal province of Latakia while smoke rose from the base.

Dec 9, 2024 · Moscow's naval port in Tartus and airbase in Latakia are in very precarious states after the fall of the Assad regime. What will happen to highly strategic Russian air and naval bases in Syria is now very much an open question following the downfall of long-time strongman Bashar Al Assad.