"We cried with happiness. Finally, we have been freed after a long period of oppression" says a resident of Syria's port city ...

By bnm Gulf bureau Opposition fighters set fire to the mausoleum of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in his ancestral ...

An Israeli strike targeted an air defence installation near Syria's Mediterranean Latakia port, Syrian security sources said ...

A monitor of Syria's war on Wednesday said that Israeli air strikes targeted sites belonging to ousted president Bashar al-Assad's military in the coastal Latakia and Tartus provinces.

Then, in 1922, the Alawite coastal area was formed as its own autonomous entity, “The State of Latakia,” separate from Syria. The Druze in the Hawran region (comprising the Israeli Golan ...

Latakia-based Sputnik reporter announced that Syrian army forces arrested members of a terrorist group. These elements were trying to infiltrate an army position in the axis of Salmi settlement in the ...

LONDON -- Syrian state media said Thursday that government ... To the west, Hama province borders Latakia, which is known as a heartland of Assad government support. Latakia is home to the Russian ...

This was to be a moment of reckoning. Enter Russia, primarily to protect its own interests in the Middle East and its naval base in Latakia, Syria's principal port city and a strategically ...

Syrian opposition fighters took control of the Latakia province, where Russian military facilities – the Khmeimim airbase and the Tartus naval base – are located, Russian state news agency ...

CAIRO - An Israeli strike targeted an air defence installation near Syria's Mediterranean Latakia port, Syrian security sources said on Monday. Israel conducted three airstrikes in the Syrian ...