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 ...

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 ...

After months of struggling to maintain a naval presence in the Mediterranean, and speculation surrounding the future of Russia's tenancy of its long-standing Station 720 naval base in Tartus, Syrian ...

Russia's navy has returned to the Mediterranean for the first time in two months, ending what military sources described as the first interruption to its Mediterranean presence since 2013 — with ships ...

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 ...

Syria and Russia reached a memorandum of understanding to settle the future of Russian bases at Tartus and Khmeimim following 18 months of intensive negotiations, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Russian ship is pictured at the Russian naval base in the Syrian Mediterranean port of Tartus on September 26, 2019. (Photo by ...