It is possible Russia could deploy its nuclear-powered submarines to the Mediterranean, but that is unlikely. The waters are ...

Russia has lost a naval base after Syria ended an investment contract with Moscow, asserting its authority over the Tartus ...

The Sparta II, a Russian cargo ship under U.S. sanctions, had been drifting near Tartus since Jan. 5 after leaving Baltiysk ...

Russia’s crucial diesel attack submarines can likely no longer operate in the Mediterranean Sea, after Moscow appears to have ...

Syria’s Military Operations Command on Saturday launched a security operation in Qardaha, the hometown of the recently ousted ...

Russia's Mediterranean foothold faces uncertainty, with Tartus’s future hanging in the balance and alternative bases in Libya ...

Since Assad’s fall in the first week of December, Israel has destroyed a large proportion of Syria’s strategic stock of ...

Syria’s new authorities have terminated an agreement with Russia’s Stroytransgaz to manage the Tartus port, Kommersant ...

The new Syrian authorities have canceled an investment agreement with a Russian company on the management of the port of ...

In December, the brutal Assad regime collapsed. The Russian military, which had a significant naval, ground, and air presence in the country, had to pull out its forces as quickly as possible. The ...

Syria has ended its Tartus port contract with Russia, allocating management of the facility to Damascus, according to the Kyiv Independent. The new government, which assumed power following the ...

The Tartus port is Russia’s sole naval base outside the former Soviet Union and has played a critical role in Moscow’s ...