The Latest Breaking News from Latakia

The Syrian opposition announced on Sunday that it had thwarted an attempt by the regime and Iranian militias to infiltrate areas of its influence in the Aleppo countryside. The opposition also announced that it had carried out a surprise attack in the Latakia countryside, killing a member of the regime…

Israeli airstrikes hit central and coastal regions of Syria early Saturday, killing four soldiers and wounding one, the Syrian military said. State media quoted an unidentified Syrian military official as saying that Israeli warplanes flying over the Mediterranean fired missiles toward military positions in coastal and central Syria. The Syrian…

Saturday marked two years since the signing of the truce agreement between Turkey and Russia over Syria's northwestern Idlib province and some regions of the Hama, Aleppo and Latakia provinces. The agreement allowed Turkey to bolster its military positions along over 78 posts. It has also deployed hundreds of heavy…

The Russian Defense Ministry announced that six amphibious assault ships of the Russian Northern and Baltic Fleet had arrived at the Russian Navy's logistics center in Tartus, western Syria. In a statement, the ministry's press office said that the naval task force is made up of the large amphibious assault…

Bosphorus Strait ‘spies’ surveil geopolitical machinations as world powers deploy military assets around the globe.

Syrian opposition sources said that a joint patrol between the Russian military police and the Syrian regime forces in the port of Latakia, on Monday, was a military measure aimed at deploying observation points in the port, which was attacked twice by Israel in recent weeks.