{"id":58059,"date":"2025-03-27T09:52:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/israeli-strike-reported-at-port-of-latakia\/58059\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:52:03","slug":"israeli-strike-reported-at-port-of-latakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/israeli-strike-reported-at-port-of-latakia\/58059\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Strike Reported at Port of Latakia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New Israeli airstrikes have been reported at the port city of Latakia, Syria, four months after the ouster of the former al-Assad regime and the rise of the governing coalition of Islamist group Hay&#039;at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).<\/p>\n<p>Local media accounts report that the strikes targeted the Latakia port area and a base once used by the Assad regime&#039;s 110th Naval Brigade. Damage assessments were still under way Wednesday night,&nbsp;and no casualties had been reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Multiple Israeli airstrikes targeted the Syrian port city of Latakia a short while ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EBQdyYqSKC\">pic.twitter.com\/EBQdyYqSKC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AMK Mapping ???????? (@AMK_Mapping_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AMK_Mapping_\/status\/1905068653068059106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Open source air traffic trackers have reported that a U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton surveillance aircraft was also operating off the coast of Syria during the operation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Syrian media have also reported new Israeli military action near&nbsp;Daraa on the southern border, resulting in six casualties. Israeli forces claimed that they came under fire from across the Syrian border and returned fire with artillery and airstrikes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration is reportedly considering sanctions relief options for Syria, which would allow the country&#039;s new rulers an opportunity to begin to rebuild the battered economy. In exchange, the U.S. wants assurance of the destruction of all of al-Assad&#039;s chemical weapons; a ban on foreign fighters in the Syrian government&#039;s ranks; help on fighting terrorist groups; and assistance in the search for the lost freelancer Austin Tice, an ex-Marine who disappeared into the Assad regime&#039;s notorious prison system 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; New Israeli airstrikes have been reported at the port city of Latakia, Syria, four months after the ouster of the former al-Assad regime and the rise of the governing coalition of Islamist group Hay&#039;at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Local media accounts report that the strikes targeted the Latakia port area and a base once used &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[4120,25125,953,3872,1244],"class_list":["post-58059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-israeli","tag-latakia","tag-port","tag-reported","tag-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/58060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}