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Syria is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest. The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided civil war in Syria fought between the Syrian Arab Republic led by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and various domestic and foreign forces that oppose both the Syrian government and each other, in varying combinations. Its ports include Latakia and Tartus.

Is Kremlin heading to Tobruk? No Russia in Tartus, no sanctions

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 23, 2024 – A Russian ship, evacuating Moscow’s military equipment and personnel from Syria, broke down on December 23...

Russia to be forced to close navy base in Tartus, Syria

Damascus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 20, 2024 – Syria’s new transitional government, led by Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and most of the...

Latakia and Beirut ports might lose captagon “business”

Latakia, Syria (Ports Europe) December 14, 2024 – With the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad last weekend, the country’s largest Mediterranean...

Syria’s navy in Al-Bayda and Latakia ports destroyed

Latakia, Syria (Ports Europe) December 11, 2024 – Israel attacked Syrian naval bases in the country ports of Al-Bayda (Elbeida) and Latakia during the...

Israel bombed Russia’s Tartus naval base in Syria – reports

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 10, 2024 – Unconfirmed reports claim that Israel bombed the coastal facilities of Russia’s naval base in Tartus...

Musical chairs for Russia’s Tartus naval base in Syria

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 9, 2024 – Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad regime collapsed, Russia is negotiating with the Islamist Hayat Tahrir...

Russia will try to “buy” its Tartus naval base from Islamists

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 8, 2024 – As Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad left the country and his regime collapsed in the face of rapidly advancing...

Russia and Iran are leaving Syria

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 6, 2024 – Iran and Russia began to evacuate their military personnel, embassy staff and citizens from Syria on December...

Russia might lose Tartus port and Syria

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 6, 2024 – A live-firing exercise was hurriedly organised for Russia’s naval ships that three days ago left their...

Update: Panicked Putin stages war games in East Med with ballistic missiles

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 3, 2024 – In response to the rapid advance of insurgents led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria where...

Western media suggest Russia’s navy flees Syria’s Tartus

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 3, 2024 – Under the headline First signs Russia is evacuating navy ships from Syria the Paris-based NavalNews web...

Update: Islamist HTS 100 km from Russia’s navy only Med Sea base

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 1, 2024 – After capturing Syria’s largest city of Aleppo, insurgents led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)...

Russia might lose its navy’s only Mediterranean port facility in Tartus

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) November 30, 2024 – Russia’s only naval base outside the former Soviet Union in Syria’s Eastern Mediterranean Sea port of...

Update: Iran wants naval and military bases in Syria

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) August 28, 2024 – Different Syrian and other media sources claim that Iran is seeking to expand a small naval base it...

Iran’s wishful thinking about a naval base in Syria

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) August 27, 2024 – Iran is seeking to expand a small naval base established in Tartus on the Syrian Mediterranean Sea coast...

Russia beefs up military presence in Libya, Africa

Tobruk, Libya (Ports Europe) May 15, 2024 – An investigation by the independent Russian website Verstka, the U.S. government funded Radio Free Europe/Radio...

Update: Can Russia add Libya’s Tobruk port to Tartus in Syria?

Tobruk, Libya (Ports Europe) February 4, 2024 – Fears are growing in Italy that Russia will base nuclear submarines at a planned naval port in eastern...

Maersk shipper ends calls in Syria

Geneva, Switzerland (Ports Europe) November 22, 2023 – The Maersk shipping company will end calls to ports in Syria as of December 1, 2023. The final...

Can Russia add Libya’s Tobruk port to its Tartus port in Syria?

Tobruk, Libya (PortSEurope) November 7, 2023 – Russia’s ambitions to control Libya’s deepwater ports of Tobruk and Derna is again on the agenda of...

Captagon drug via ports of Beirut, Latakia and Tripoli

Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) October 15, 2023 – The Syrian regime and Lebanese Hezbollah have adeptly woven the production, promotion, and smuggling of...

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