Tartus
Tartus is a city on the Mediterranean coast of Syria. It is the second largest port city in Syria.
Syria’s Tartus port open, but not for Russia
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) January 19, 2025 – It is widely reported that the Syrian Mediterranean port of Tartus is now open to commercial traffic....
Tartus and Latakia ports resume normal operations
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 29, 2024 – Syria’s two largest Mediterranean Sea ports of Latakia and Tartus resumed their normal operations...
Turkey eyes Syrian Mediterranean ports
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) December 26, 2024 – Turkey is jockeying for control of at least one Mediterranean port in Syria following the collapse of...
Is the 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...
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...