Syria is fractured by competing armies but who holds power and where may be shifting as the US eyes an exit.

Russia's long-held military presence at Tartus fell into uncertainty after the collapse of the Assad regime last month.

The Syrian Defense Ministry has denied Russian military access to the naval base in Tartus. A column of 30 Russian trucks with missile weapons, which set out from the Khmeimim airbase, was stopped by ...

A Russian military convoy was reportedly denied entry to a base in the Syrian port city of Tartus by Syria’s transitional ...

In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...

The Tartus port is also home to one of Russia’s military bases in Syria, serving as a key logistics hub for the Russian Navy. In addition to Tartus, the Khmeimim Air Base in the Latakia governorate is ...

Russia wants to keep its naval base on the Mediterranean at Tartus, which dates to the ... Image A convoy of Russian military ...

The Russian cargo ships Sparta and Sparta II have begun transporting military equipment out of the Syrian port of Tartus, Russia’s only naval base in the Mediterranean Sea, satellite images published ...

Syria says it's open to allowing Russia to keep hold of two key military bases, months after rebel groups ousted Kremlin ally ...

Putin ordered his military to intervene in Syria in support of Assad in 2015, helping turn the war against rebel forces at that time. In 2017, Russia was awarded 49-year leases to the Tartus base ...

The Sparta II, a Russian cargo ship under U.S. sanctions, had been drifting near Tartus since Jan. 5 after leaving Baltiysk in Kaliningrad Oblast on Dec. 11.