At least four people have been killed and dozens wounded in clashes on Syria’s coast.

United Nations teams have deployed to Syria's coast as wildfires rage for a fourth day.

This week's deadly quake has potentially displaced millions of people in war-torn Syria, many of them for the second time.

Satellite images taken this week over the port of Latakia show the smoldering wreckage after an Israeli missile strike, hours after firefighters contained a massive blaze.

Officials say firefighters have contained a blaze that raged for hours in Syria’s port of Latakia, hours after Israel launched missiles from the Mediterranean Sea, igniting the fire in the container terminal.

Syria media are reporting that Israeli missiles fired from the Mediterranean struck the port of Latakia, igniting a fire in the containers area.

Syria's Justice Ministry says authorities have executed 24 people for igniting deadly wildfires last year.

Assad made a rare public visit to Latakia where he toured areas that suffered heavy damage in last weeks deadly wildfires. Assad’s public visits to areas around Syria have been rare since the country’s conflict began in March 2011. SANA said Assad was accompanied by the ministers of local administration and agriculture and vowed to help residents replant the burnt areas. Three people were killed in the wildfires that also burned wide areas of forests, mostly in Latakia and the central province of Homs. Assad’s hometown of Qardaha in Latakia province was hard hit by the fires that heavily damaged a building used as storage for the state-owned tobacco company, part of which collapsed.