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Observatory 45, a communications compound in the Armenian Christian town of Kasab, is seen on March 27, 2014. (REUTERS/Stringer)

Taking, and Leaving, Latakia

by Hannah Lucinda Smith | Mar 30, 2014 | Features

Yayladağı, Turkish–Syrian border, Asharq Al-Awsat—It wasn’t so much what Nabil said that was disturbing, but his appearance. Twenty-one years old, smiling and baby faced, he hardly looked like a man who could kill so easily and without remorse. But just a few days...

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Rebel fighters gather along the road carrying their weapons near the village of Qasab and the border crossing with Turkey, in the northwestern province of Latakia, on March 23, 2014. (AFP Photo/Amr Radwan Al-Homsi)

Syrian opposition advance in Latakia, say activists

by Nazeer Rida | Mar 27, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Syrian activists said opposition forces continued to make gains in the governorate of Latakia on Wednesday, and had taken control of the village of Nabaeen, south of Qasab, on the Syrian–Turkish border. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

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A rebel fighter rests after taking the village of Kasab and the border crossing with Turkey, in the northwestern province of Latakia, on March 23, 2014 (AFP PHOTO/AMR RADWAN AL-HOMSI)

Islamist rebels seize first coastal village in north Syria

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 25, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Reuters—Islamist rebels captured a village on Syria’s Mediterranean coast for the first time and battled to hold territory abutting the nearby Turkish border taken from President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, activists said on Tuesday. Video footage...

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Members of a UN investigation team take samples in the Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria. (AP Photo/United media office of Arbeen)

Russia sends armored trucks to Syria to transport chemical arms

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 23, 2013 | Middle East

Moscow, Reuters—Russia has sent 25 armored trucks and 50 other vehicles to Syria to help transport toxins that are to be destroyed under an international agreement to rid the nation of its chemical arsenal, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Monday. In a report to...

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Free Syrian Army fighters stand on the back of a truck mounted with an anti-aircraft weapon in Syria’s northwestern Latakia province November 1, 2013. REUTERS/Khattab Abdulaa

Syrian opposition fighters demand ISIS leave Latakia

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 17, 2013 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Sources close to the Syrian opposition in the Latakia region told Asharq Al-Awsat that Free Syrian Army (FSA) and independent Islamist fighters have joined forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), to force the group out of the...