It is normal in battle-scarred cities like Damascus or Qusair. But along the beaches and in the cafes of Tartous, an area that is a center of support for the embattled President Bashar Assad ...

Lorries shuttle back and forth as cargo ships unload their wares at the port of Tartous on Syria's Mediterranean coast: the ...

The beach man is deeply tanned ... Still, Hassan says if people in Tartous really thought about it, he believes they would join the uprising against the government. But instead, they believe ...

On 8th December 2024, the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad fell. The new power doesn't wish to leave the Tartous base to Russia. It had to be evacuated in record time. A race that ended in a ...

Syria’s new authorities terminated a contract this week with a Russian company that had managed the port of Tartous for more than five years, further restricting the Russian presence in the country ...

People waiting for a bus in Tartous in front of a poster of President Assad and pictures of those who have died fighting for his government, December 2014. (Kyodo via AP Images) By signing up ...

TARTOUS, Syria, March 10 (Xinhua) -- A tense calm prevailed in Syria's coastal city of Tartous on Monday following a large-scale security operation targeting what the government refers to as ...

Satellite Imagery Shows Russian Navy Ships Anchored off Syrian Coast By Reade Levinson LONDON (Reuters) - Satellite imagery show that Russian naval ships have left Moscow's base at Tartous on ...

An Israeli strike on Syria’s coast south of Tartous has wounded two civilians on Saturday, the Syrian defence ministry says. Damascus accused Tel Aviv of launching an “air aggression” from ...

Feb 28 (Reuters) - STG Engineering, a Russian company that operates Syria's Tartous commercial port, said on Friday that it was continuing to work as usual and that its contract had not been ...

Fourteen members of the Syrian police were killed in an "ambush" by forces loyal to the ousted government in the Tartous countryside, the transitional administration said early on Thursday ...

LONDON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Satellite imagery show that Russian naval ships have left Moscow's base at Tartous on Syria's coast and some have dropped anchor offshore following the overthrow of ...