DUBAI: Syria’s Tartus port could be an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz, Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa said on Tuesday. “Syria has transformed into a geographic location for stability, and a ...

Phone call marks 1st known contact between Putin and Sharaa since Syrian president’s January visit to Moscow | Anadolu ...

Four Russian ships, including sanctioned cargo and tanker vessels escorted by a destroyer, entered the Mediterranean via ...

A convoy of Russian naval and cargo vessels delivered supplies last week to Syrian coastal facilities long used by Moscow’s ...

For the first time since the agreement between Russia and Syria, a Russian naval convoy resupplied the bases of Tartus and Khmeimim. Find out what the ships were carrying and why this mission is ...

On Monday, the new government of Syria canceled Russia's 49-year operating lease at the port of Tartus, potentially bringing a multi-decade Russian naval presence in the Eastern Mediterranean to a ...

Syria and Russia have reached an agreement on the future of two strategic bases on Syria's Mediterranean coast, ending their use as Russian military outposts, Syria's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

The first cargo of Syrian crude oil to be exported from the port of Tartus since the Syrian civil war was lifted on September 1. The Greek-owned tanker Nissos Christiana (114,264 dwt), loaded 600,000 ...

More than its weapons sales to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russia's greatest strategic and geopolitical interest in Syria is the use of a deep-water port at Tartus. RFE/RL takes a ...