Israeli military aircraft carried out a series of powerful airstrikes on military targets in the Syrian port city of Tartus, ...

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...

Israel said it had wiped out the vast majority of the Syrian military's assets, including huge chunks of its air-defense ...

Tartus‎, Syria - This morning, heavy airstrikes were carried out by the Israeli Air Force on Tartus, Western Syria.

The locals had no idea what it was the Israelis dropped on the Syrian military base at Bimalkah. They just knew it produced a ...

Israeli strikes targeted military sites in Syria's coastal Tartus region overnight, a war monitor said Monday, calling them "the heaviest strikes" there in years.

Footage of Israeli bombing in the vicinity of Tartus.

Without a Libyan port, and if they are forced to abandon Tartus in Syria, the Russians would be left without a Mediterranean sea port to project power on NATO’s southern flank, the official said.

Russian military activity has increased in western Syria in the past few days. The region is home to several key sites used by Russia’s military, including a naval base in Tartus and an airbase ...

Syria -- A convoy of Russian military vehicles rolled down the highway towards the Syrian city of Tartus on Monday as soldiers stood guard. Planes periodically descended and rose from Russia’s ...

But one topic went unmentioned: Syria. Mr. Putin has yet to say anything ... down military presence at the Hmeimim air base and the Tartus naval base in the Mediterranean. That could allow Moscow ...

Until Moscow's ally Assad fled from Syria, Russia maintained its only major naval base outside of Russian territory in Tartus. Satellite imagery (below) showed most of the Russian ships ...