Latakia in a sentence

The nearest rebel positions in the area are east of Latakia province in the Jabal al-Akrad region, from which the militants have targeted the city of Latakia with rockets and shells.

A flurry of Russian Il-76s has also reportedly been shuttling between bases used by Wagner in Libya and Latakia, Syria in the days leading up to the fighting and since it began.

Authorities said after the strike that relief flights had been diverted to airports in Damascus and Latakia.

The Israeli strikes that hit the airport earlier this month also put it out of service, forcing Syria to reroute aid flights to Damascus and Latakia.

These efforts were no more successful than those of previous years, however, with Alawite notables and clerics taking up their anti-Iranian grievances to Russian military officers stationed at the Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia.

Assad and his dynastic family are Alawi, a sect close to Shia Islam, and he is often accused of favouring the community, many of whom reside in Latakia and Tartous close to HTS-held Idlib.

In the city of Latakia, protester Ghidak Mayya, 30, decried "violations" against the Alawite community.

Russia has the Hmeimim airbase is in Syria’s Latakia province as well as a naval facility at Tartous on the coast.

In neighbouring Syria, fires spread in the coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus, as well as the central province of Homs, but authorities there brought all the fires under control.

It covers nearly all of Idlib and parts of neighbouring Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia provinces.

Russian warplanes struck the towns of Sheikh Mustafa and Jibala in Idlib province and Kabina town in Latakia province, the sources said, requesting anonymity due to safety concerns.

Situated in Latakia province in Syria's northwest, the Khmeimim airbase has been the home base of Russian forces deployed in Syria ever since Russia began its anti-terrorist operation in the country in September 2015.

Russian fighter jets on the tarmac at the Russian Hmeimim military base in Latakia province, in the northwest of Syria, February 16, 2016.

While Russian presence has been reduced, there is still the big naval base in Latakia, along with some forces remaining elsewhere.

With Russian help, the regime drove rebels from their strongholds of Salma and Rabia in Latakia province on the Mediterranean coast in January 2016.

Herzog, The Arab–Israeli Wars, p. 312. The Battles of Latakia and Baltim "drastically changed the operational situation at sea to Israeli advantage".

Nasser sent Egyptian special forces to Latakia to bolster his allies, but withdrew them two days later, citing a refusal to allow inter-Arab fighting.

The port of Latakia was the site of another engagement between October 10–11, when Israeli missile boats fired into the port, targeting two Syrian missile boats spotted maneuvering among merchant ships.