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Residents inspect damages after an airstrike on the rebel held al-Maysar neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria, April 11, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail
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Latakia coast
Government Reports of Shelling in Latakia Province Are False- Fadi Ahmad
Syrian group “First Coastal Division” denied on Sunday news media reports that armed groups had fired dozens of mortar rounds into rural areas of the country’s coastal Latakia province and caused a number of casualties. The Russian Defense Ministry on Sunday...Caption:
A checkpoint that belonged to the forces of Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad is seen after a coalition of rebel groups called the Jaysh Al-Fatah said they took control of it, on a highway that connects Aleppo to Latakia, in the Idlib countryside, Syria, on June 6, 2015. (Reuters/Mohamad Bayoush)
Rebels strike biggest blow against Assad’s forces since 2011: sources
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Rebels cut off Syrian government forces’ last supply lines between the northwestern Mediterranean coastal city of Latakia and Syria’s largest city Aleppo, in what has been described as the biggest loss suffered by President Bashar Al-Assad’s...Caption:
People protest in London, United Kingdom to mark the fourth anniversary of the Syrian conflict, on March 13, 2015. (Asharq Al-Awsat/James Hanna)
Assad family aide who headed Shabiha militia assassinated in Latakia
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Muhammad Tawfiq Al-Assad, cousin of President Bashar Al-Assad and believed to be one of the founders of the Syrian regime’s infamous Shabiha militias, has been assassinated in the village of Qerdaha, the country’s main Alawite stronghold and...Caption:
The coastal area near the Armenian Christian town of Kasab is seen March 28, 2014. After months of setbacks in central Syria, Islamist rebels launched an offensive last Friday into the Latakia region, taking the border crossing and the Armenian Christian village of Kasab. The border crossing at Kasab they seized had been the last […]