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7/13/2025 7:05:09 PM
Some of Syria’s worst wildfires in years have been brought under control as of Sunday, according to the Civil Defense and the Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management, following days of grueling firefighting in the forested countryside of the coastal Latakia province.
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World
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7/6/2025 6:35:20 PM
Syrian authorities said some 100 square kilometres (40 square miles) of forest had "turned to ash" in wildfires as firefighters from neighbouring Jordan arrived Sunday to battle a fourth day of blazes in the province of Latakia.
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7/5/2025 7:17:05 PM
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World
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3/27/2025 10:58:02 AM
Syrian state media said Israeli strikes targeted the coastal Latakia province on Thursday, with a war monitor saying munitions depots were hit.
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3/15/2025 9:24:47 PM
Syrians gathered on Saturday to commemorate the 14th anniversary of their uprising with a public demonstration in Damascus for the first time since President Bashar Al-Assad was toppled, while a blast in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia killed at least four people.
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3/10/2025 11:57:00 AM
A Syrian war monitor said Monday that security forces and allied groups had killed 973 civilians in a series of "massacres" in coastal areas and in the Latakia Mountains since 6 March.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/8/2025 12:47:13 PM
Egypt voiced concern over the ongoing clashes in the Syrian coastal province of Latakia, leaving several people dead and injured.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
12/17/2024 8:25:50 PM
The fall of the Bashar Al-Assad regime presents Russia with a complex dilemma regarding the fate of its bases in Latakia and Tartus
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World
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Region
12/16/2024 5:35:56 PM
In the Assad clan's former heartland of Latakia, many in the toppled president's Alawite minority are relieved that his iron-clad rule has come to an end.
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10/17/2024 10:10:47 AM
Syrian state media said a rare Israeli air strike on Thursday on the city of Latakia, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, wounded two civilians.
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8/23/2023 3:23:07 PM
Shelling hit the hometown of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the coastal province of Latakia on Wednesday, wounding a civilian, state media said, the second such attack in two months.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/2/2023 9:29:38 PM
An Egyptian ship carrying relief aid left from Arish Port to Latakia port in Syria and Port of Mersin in Turkey to deliver hundreds of tons of relief aid to earthquake-affected areas, the Egyptian armed forces announced on Thursday
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/20/2023 6:50:00 PM
A supply ship from the Egyptian Navy arrived in the Port of Latakia, Syria, on Monday carrying “hundreds of tons” of relief aid in the wake of the 6 February earthquake, Egyptian Presidential Spokesman Ahmed Fahmy said in a statement.
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2/12/2023 8:01:24 PM
Lebanon's powerful Shiaa movement Hezbollah sent Sunday a convoy of 23 trucks carrying food and medical aid to Syria's quake-stricken province of Latakia, a stronghold of the group's allies.
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World
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12/30/2021 3:20:57 PM
Satellite images taken this week over the Syrian port of Latakia show the smoldering wreckage after a reported Israeli missile strike, hours after firefighters contained a massive blaze.
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World
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Region
12/29/2021 2:58:18 PM
At least people were killed in an Israeli strike on the Syrian port of Latakia, a war monitor said on Wednesday.
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World
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Region
12/28/2021 10:13:06 AM
Israeli missiles fired from the Mediterranean struck the Syrian port of Latakia early Tuesday, igniting a fire in the container terminal, Syrian state media reported, in the second such attack on the vital facility this month.
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World
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12/7/2021 9:19:37 AM
Israeli air strikes hit the Syrian port of Latakia early Tuesday, according to Syrian state media, in a rare attack targeting key facilities.
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World
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9/26/2021 3:59:25 PM
Hospitals in the Syrian capital Damascus and the coastal province of Latakia have reached capacity due to rising coronavirus admissions, a health official said Sunday. We have started transferring Covid-19 patients from the province of Damascus to the (central) province of Homs, and from Latakia to the province of Tartus, Tawfiq Hasaba, a health ministry official, was quoted as saying by Syrian state TV.
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World
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Region
6/9/2021 10:31:00 AM
The Israeli air force carried out overnight strikes in several regions of Syria, in Damascus, Homs, Hama and Latakia provinces, the Observatory said
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