Latakia International Airport guide

Latakia International Airport (ICAO OSLK) is Syria's main airport on the Mediterranean coast. It sits on the coastal plain near Jableh and shares its site with the Russian Khmeimim air base, whose runway and civilian buildings lie side by side.

The airport has one asphalt runway, 17/35, measuring 2,797 m by 45 m. The passenger terminal opened in 1983 and the control tower was working by 1989. Until 2024 the airport carried the name Bassel Al-Assad International Airport. Commercial service was suspended in October 2015 as military activity at Khmeimim grew, and resumed in December 2016.

The airport is currently closed to civilian traffic. An August memorandum between Syria and Russia provides for Syria to take back management of the civilian facilities, and in late September 2026 the General Authority of Civil Aviation and Air Transport announced that restoration of the buildings, facilities and equipment had begun. The airport will reopen only once the work is complete and safety standards are met, and no date for flights has been announced.