![]() ![]() The Iranian paramilitary, the IRGC, is also present in the governorate. The Russian air force had acquired its own airbase and landing strip at Hmeimim, from where it conducts expeditionary operations to support the GoS. The SAA and various pro-GoS militias were operating in the governorate. According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) ‘the largely Alawite and Christian populations, the GoS’ reliable security apparatus, and the presence of paramilitary forces supporting the GoS forces there, as reasons for the relative stability of the governorate’. Since 2013, the GoS managed to isolate rebel strongholds to the mountain areas in the northeast of Latakia. ![]() Most of Latakia governorate had been under government control since the start of the conflict and the governorate has been a stronghold for the Alawites and the Assad family. ![]()
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