Tartus

Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes late Sunday on military sites in Syria's Latakia and Tartus provinces, targeting key infrastructure, including military bases and ammunition depots. The airstrikes also reportedly triggered a violent explosion in the village of Hiresun in Tartus.

Recent satellite imagery reveals that Russian naval vessels have temporarily departed from the Tartous naval base in Syria, raising questions about Russia's military presence in the region. The images, captured on December 10, show some ships positioned offshore in the Mediterranean, suggesting a possible reevaluation of Moscow's strategic goals in the country.

A US Navy commander said Wednesday there is "no significant change" in the conduct of Russian aircraft and warships toward Western naval and air assets in the eastern Mediterranean as Moscow's war in Ukraine grinds on.

Learning after a decade that her son was in Algeria, a Syrian woman living in the southern province of Hatay has brought her son back to Türkiye with a passport immediately issued by the Interior Ministry.

A US intelligence aircraft flew in the area between Khmeimim and Tartus during the attack on the Russian base in Khmeimim. This was stated by the Russian Defense Ministry, FOCUS reported quoting TASS.

Russia has enough forces remaining in Syria to withstand possible attacks on its bases, a Kremlin spokesman said on Tuesday, quoted by Reuters. 

"That contingent that remains, the military infrastructure that remains, at the Hmeimim and Tartus military bases, they are completely capable of fighting these occasional terrorist acts," spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call.

Since 1980, Russia celebrates its Navy Day on the last Sunday of July. Navy Day in Russia was established in 1939. This year, the celebrations organized on the 30th of July covered the whole Russian coast line from Vladivostok in the far east to St. Petersburg in the west, from Severomorsk in the north to Sevastapol in Crimea.

Since World War II, the Mediterranean Sea has been the home to the U.S.

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Russia has reportedly sent a missile-armed frigate to its naval base in Syria's Mediterranean coastal city of Tartus following a recent US missile strike against an airbase in the Arab country, Al-Alam reports.

Two very important developments regarding the Syrian conflict: Russia signed an agreement that prolongs its presence in the country and increases its forces and its installations there and Turkey seems to accept for the first time Assad on power in a post-solution Syria.

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