Two of the Special Forces regiments that participated in the February 2012 siege of Homs also moved to Idilb, namely, the 15th Division’s 35th Special Forces Regiment, which moved to Jisr al-Shughour, where it secured the key line of communication to coastal Latakia, and the 14th Division’s 556th Special Forces Regiment, which occupied positions south of Maarrat al-Nu'man.
There of course is also a significant Greco-Syrian population in Aleppo, as well as smaller communities in Latakia, Tartus and Homs.
Almost all private health facilities are located in large urban areas such as Damascus, Aleppo, Tartus, and Latakia.
Their circuit took them across Syria to Latakia, down the Syrian and Lebanese coasts as far as Acre, which they found in ruinous state save for a khan (caravanserai) occupied by some French merchants, a mosque and a few poor cottages.
Alvand entered the Suez Canal on 22 February 2011, with the supply vessel Kharg, on a deployment reported to be a training mission to Latakia, Syria.
Kharg entered the Suez Canal on 22 February 2011, with the frigate Alvand, on a deployment reported to be a training mission to Latakia, Syria.
Latakia and the surrounding districts became a separate autonomous state under a Mandate given to France by the League of Nations and remained so for two years until its incorporation into the larger, French Mandate of Syria in 1923.
In other parts of the country during this period, Kurds became local chiefs and tax farmers in Akkar (Lebanon) and the Qusayr highlands between Antioch and Latakia in northwestern Syria.
Scottish PSC member Pippa Bartolotti, a prominent leader of the Wales Green Party, took partin 2010's Viva Palestina convoy and visited Latakia, Syria, where she was photographed waving the flag of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), a known Neo-Nazi organisation.
Some cities previously loyal to him decided that it was time to change their allegiance, in particular Laodicea and Tyre.
Tancred expanded the borders of the Principality, seizing the cities of Tarsus and Latakia from the Byzantine Empire.
More than 20 tanks and APCs rolled into Latakia on 13 August, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
However, the party is against a divided Syria because Syrian Turkmens live scatteredly in different cities such as Aleppo, Homs, Latakia, Azaz, Jarablus, Raqqah, Idlib, Hama and Damascus, and a parted Syria would give serious damage to the Turkmens.
Zyad Barakat Chaabo (also spelt Ziad Shaabo, born January 1, 1979 in Latakia, Syria) is a Syrian football player who is currently playing for Misfat Baniyas in the Syrian Premier League.