As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

Assad said he went to the Russian base in Latakia province to "oversee combat operations." When he got there, Syrian troops were fleeing the area. Assad was in power for 24 years. Before that, his ...

Syria's Latakia port sees renewed activity post-Assad. Workers blame his neglect as the new gov't tackles rebuilding ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 04 (MNA) – Israeli regime's warplanes carried out a fresh attack on Syria's Latakia on Saturday. Since the fall ...

The removal of Bashar al-Assad has reignited Western and Eastern plans to control Syria’s oil and gas resources.

The Struggle for the Middle East (1989) offers crucial insight into the domestic, regional, and international forces that ...

The Khmeimim airbase in Latakia has been a lifeline for Russia’s expanding influence in Africa, from Libya to several ...

The fields along Syria’s Mediterranean coast once produced wheat, tomatoes and olives to feed the country. They were a ...

AL-HAKEEM, Syria — The woman was clutching her infant, still in the dressing gown and pajamas she had been wearing a day earlier when fighters overran this village in Syria’s Latakia province ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad ...

We visit the hometown of the ousted Syrian President, Bashir al-Assad. Qardaha lies in northwest Syria, considered the heartlands of the Alawite religious sect.