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Topic: Tartus

April 19, 2013
10:01 pm

Anti Syrian regime protesters chanting slogans and waving the Syrian revolutionary flag during a demonstration, in Aleppo, Syria, Friday, April 19, 2013.(AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Fierce battles in Syria; US to raise aid to rebels

18 people killed Friday near the Lebanese border; gunmen shot a government official Thursday in Damascus

March 31, 2013
3:55 pm

Devices that appear to be like rocks found in Syria's coastal region, northwest of Damascus. (photo credit: AP/SANA)

‘Israel tracked Russian navy in Syria’

Israeli naval commandos planted spy camera near Tartus to monitor Russian naval movements, UK paper says

By Times of Israel staff and AP

March 15, 2013
9:35 pm

The Russian warship Varyag (photo credit: CC BY randychiu, Flickr)

Three Russian warships headed for Syrian port

Hundreds of soldiers aboard, yet no information so far regarding the intent of their journey

By Times of Israel staff

January 22, 2013
7:37 pm

A Free Syrian Army fighter runs for cover as another fires his weapon, during heavy clashes with government forces in Aleppo, Syria, on Sunday, January 20, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Andoni Lubaki)

Russia’s Syria evacuation reflects doubts on Assad

Operation has been small-scale, but marks the beginning of what could soon turn into a risky and challenging endeavor

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

January 15, 2013
4:07 pm

Men help a wounded civilian after a mortar attack in the Saif al-Dawlah neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013 (photo credit: Andoni Lubki/AP)

Syria’s ‘day of child-killing’

As fighting rages, Assad’s top brass and others flee to traditional Alawite enclave; Mali rebels encroach on capital

By Elhanan Miller

January 6, 2013
4:57 am

The Russian warship Varyag (photo credit: CC BY randychiu, Flickr)

Fleet of Russian warships reportedly en route to Syria to head off a Western attack

Israel and the US said to be mulling a military campaign to secure chemical weapons held by Moscow’s civil war-ravaged ally

By Times of Israel staff

December 30, 2012
7:20 pm

The Russian Federation Navy Udaloy class destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov transiting the channel into Pearl Harbor in October 2003 (photo credit: US Navy)

Russian warship heads to Syria in preparation for a possible evacuation

Moscow officials have acknowledged that citizens will be pulled out of the country should Assad’s regime fall

By Adiv Sterman

December 24, 2012
1:21 pm

In this Nov. 29, 2012 file photo, Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, answers media questions after consultations at United Nations headquarters. (Photo credit: AP/Richard Drew)

Assad proves no bakery is safe

More attacks on civilians in Syria shock the Arab world; Russia tells Assad he can’t move in

By Michael Bassin

October 8, 2012
7:12 pm

A Syrian boy, who fled his home with his family due to fighting between government forces and rebels, holds a plate with food to eat at a refugee camp near the Turkish border, Azaz, Syria, Sunday. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)

UNICEF reaches agreement with Syria to expand relief efforts

Reuters: Humanitarian workers will be allowed to travel outside Damascus to help civilians brave violence, impending winter

September 30, 2012
10:48 am

A Russian-built, Kilo-class diesel submarine (photo credit: Courtesy US DoD)

Russia said evacuating its personnel from base in Syria

Moscow pulls military staff and civilians out of Tartus, rebels claim

By Ilan Ben Zion

September 29, 2012
11:11 pm

Illustrative photo of a Turkish F-4 fighter jet. (photo credit: CC BY Jerry Gunner, Flickr)

Russia told Assad to shoot down Turkish plane, murder captured pilots, ‘leaked Syrian documents’ show

Devastating intelligence papers purport to prove jet was downed on Moscow’s orders, pilots captured alive by intelligence unit and then killed; Damascus had claimed June incident was an accident

By Yifa Yaakov and Times of Israel staff

September 29, 2012
12:26 am

A Free Syrian Army soldier after firing a recoilless rifle during clashes with Syrian government forces at the village of Mukhtariya in the suburbs of Homs, Syria. (photo credit: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights via AP video)

Free Syrian Army fighters aren’t extremists or ‘al-Qaeda types,’ group’s DC fundraiser insists

Representative says the Syrian opposition is committed to a multi-ethnic, democratic future after Assad

By Michal Shmulovich

September 9, 2012
5:11 pm

An IDF drill simulating an attack on Israel with chemical weapons, 2008 (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash 90)

Syria transferred chemical weapons to port city last month, raising alarm bells, report says

Russian and US warnings came after news that embattled regime had moved weapons

By Elhanan Miller

September 5, 2012
6:11 am

A destoryed Syrian Army tank. Russia has indicated it will not provide Assad with any new weapons. (photo credit: CC BY/FreedomHouse,Flickr)

Russia tells citizens to leave Syria, reportedly refuses Assad requests for weapons

Moscow believed to be considering evacuating personnel from its naval base in Tartus

By Michal Shmulovich

August 3, 2012
9:55 pm

This image purports to show pillars of smoke as a result of shelling Friday by Syrian government forces near al-Zafaran mosque in Homs, Syria. (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network, SNN)

Syria pleads with Russia for loans amid international embargo on its exports

Assad’s deputy PM also wants to get diesel oil and other oil products from Moscow in exchange for crude supplies

By AP and Michal Shmulovich

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