New satellite images show Russian cargo ships docked at Tartus to haul away military equipment. Russia's presence at the key naval base in Syria fell into uncertainty after the Assad regime ended.

Not so, says a respected Moscow military think tank. "Tartus is not a real naval base," says Ruslan Aliev, the head of information at the well-connected Centre for Analysis of Strategies and ...

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday the country’s military installations in Syria, which include a naval hub at the Mediterranean port of Tartus and the Khmeimim Air Base, were in a state of ...

This photograph captured on December 10 by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellites shows Syria's Khmeimim air base, operated by Russia as a key logistics hub for its military interests ...

Tartus and the Russian air base in Latakia have been key hubs to support Russian operations in Africa. Russian naval base Tartus on Dec. 10, 2024. ©2024 Maxar Technologies used with permission ...

The Novorossiysk was spotted several weeks earlier at Tartus, a naval base in Syria that Russia had used for years. The future of Moscow's military footprint at the facility — and in the country ...

With Syrian rebels only 50 miles away, Russia has evacuated all its warships from Tartus, its only naval base in the Mediterranean, satellite photos show. Situated 100 miles east of Cyprus and 100 ...

The Tartus naval base was originally built in 1971 by the Soviet Union. Putin modernised and enlarged the base again in 2012 ...

Russia built the Cold War-era Tartus base in 1977. It stood mostly idle from the fall of the Soviet Union until Russia intervened in the civil war in 2015. After that Russia signed a 49-year lease ...

New satellite images show Russian cargo ships docked at Tartus to haul away military equipment. Russia's presence at the key naval base in Syria fell into uncertainty after the Assad regime ended.

Russia has deep roots in Syria, particularly through its naval base in Tartus, a port city looking out onto the Mediterranean and its Khmeimim air base just further north.