security officers during this early period of the siege. More than 20 tanks and APCs rolled into Latakia on 13 August 2011, according to the London-based...
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siege of Loadicea took place in July 1188 between the Ayyubid Sultanate led by Saladin and the Principality of Antioch, who held modern-day Latakia....
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Latakia (Arabic: ٱللَّاذْقِيَّة, romanized: al-Lādhiqiyya; Syrian pronunciation: [el.laːdˈʔɪjje, -laːðˈqɪjja]) is the principal port city of Syria and...
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Byzantine port city of Laodicea (modern Latakia) was led by Abu Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrah and 'Ubadah ibn al-Samit, two of the Companions of the Islamic prophet...
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Free Palestine Movement (category Pro-government factions of the Syrian civil war)
same time, the Free Palestine Movement was also active in Latakia Governorate, where one of its fighters was killed at Salma. After the Northwestern Syria...
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Shannon M. Kent (category Recipients of the Meritorious Service Medal (United States))
part of a group that attended a meeting with local military officials and stopped at a local restaurant frequented by U.S. personnel, the Palace of the...
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follows. Siege of Aratta (c. 2600 BC) Siege of Uruk (c. 2580 BC) Siege of Qabra (1780 BC) Siege of Hiritum (1764 BC) Siege of Larsa (1763 BC) Siege of Avaris...
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of Khasham, also known as the Battle of Conoco Fields, was a military engagement of the Syrian civil war fought on 7 February 2018 near the towns of Khasham...
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northwestern Idlib, with the interim government planning to expand into northern Latakia and northern Hama in the following months. By August 2017, the Syrian interim...
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Syrian Turkmen Brigades (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from January 2018)
the Turkmen Mountain of Latakia were left under Turkmen rebel control, as the result of the rebel defeat in the 2015–16 Latakia offensive. Many Turkmen...
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Pisans to abandon the siege of Latakia, forcing Bohemond to also lift the siege. Raymond IV took possession of Latakia on behalf of Alexios I. December...
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Wagner Group (category Military units and formations of Russia in the Russian invasion of Ukraine)
war, when between three and nine PMCs were killed in a mortar attack in Latakia province. Wagner PMCs were involved in both Palmyra offensives in 2016...
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Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus (redirect from Assassination of Mohammad Reza Zahedi)
eight officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and two Syrian civilians. The airstrike took place during a period of heightened tension...
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The siege of Alexandria in 1174 was a short and unsuccessful attempt by the Normans of Sicily to overthrow Saladin from Egypt. After Saladin had abolished...
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Revolutionary Commando Army (redirect from Army of Free Syria)
Russian RBK-500 cluster bombs which were delivered from Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia. Later in June, the group launched an offensive against ISIL in Abu Kamal...
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Idlib, Hamah, Damascus, and Latakia. It later subdivided the territory under its control to create the new provinces of al-Furat, Fallujah, Dijlah, and...
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The siege of Kobanî was launched by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on 13 September 2014, in order to capture the Kobanî Canton and its main city...
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outlying regions, and continued to attack protests. On 14 August, the Siege of Latakia continued as the Syrian Navy became involved in the military crackdown...
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International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces (IRPGF) was a collective of anarchist fighters from around the world. Its formation was announced on 31...
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Bashar al-Assad (redirect from Butcher of Damascus)
several members of the Assad family died in Latakia under unclear circumstances. On 14 March, an influential cousin of Assad and founder of the shabiha,...
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Syrian civil war (redirect from Cultural impact of the Syrian Civil War)
pictures of each of their victims with identifying information on them. The UN reported in 2014 that "siege warfare is employed in a context of egregious...
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Hezbollah (redirect from Organization of Right Against Wrong)
of the Camps. However, Hezbollah's early primary focus was ending Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon following Israel's 1982 invasion and siege of...
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17 October 2015. "Syrian Army captures Beit Fares village in northern Latakia". Al Masdar News. Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved...
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Siege of Kobanî, and in the YPG's Tell Abyad offensive of summer of 2015, the regions of Jazira and...
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Syrian revolution (redirect from Syrian Revolution of 2011)
Talkalakh, Latakia, Jisr al-Shuggur, Aleppo, Damascus and several other towns and cities. After the end of each siege, violent suppression of sporadic protests...
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American soldiers during the Syrian civil war. In the Syrian Civil War, the city of Manbij was taken by the Free Syrian Army in 2012, and then by ISIS in 2014...
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İbrahimbəyli) is known as the founder of this movement. He is a staunch critic of the regime of Ilham Aliyev and stated that the aim of the movement is "to create...
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August 15, 2011, during the Siege of Latakia the camp was shelled by Syrian government forces, forcing residents to flee. "Latakia (Unofficial Refugee Camp)"...
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Kayla Mueller that resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the then-leader and self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization...
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The 2015–2016 Latakia offensive was a campaign of the Syrian Civil War that was launched by government forces in October 2015 to recapture rebel-held...
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