TEHRAN (Iran News) – Units of the Syria Arab Army on Sunday deployed in four new villages in Ras al-Ayn countryside, reducing a distance towards the Turkish border to few kilometers. Syrian news agency SANA’s reporter in Hasaka made a report. Says that army units advanced from the direction of Tal Tamr in the northern […]

Russia has slammed as “banditry” plans by the United States to deploy more forces in Syria, accusing the administration of President Donald Trump of seeking to seize the Syria oil fields under false pretexts. Iran News quotes the report. Trump and Pentagon chief Mark Esper confirmed Thursday that, while Washington was pulling some troops out […]

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to have been killed in a raid conducted by the US military in northwest Syria on Saturday, according to a senior US defense official and a source with knowledge. The final confirmation is pending while DNA and biometric testing is ongoing, both sources tell CNN. Iran News covers […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Russia said Wednesday it had completed the deliveries of S-400 missiles defense systems to Turkey, and the two sides are in talks for a new deal. Alexander Mikheyev, the head of state-controlled arms trader Rosoboronexport, said the defense systems contract was completed ahead of schedule. “[We] successfully handled the logistics and […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – US troops leaving Syria and heading to neighboring Iraq do not have permission to stay in the country, Iraq’s military said Tuesday as American forces continued to pull out of northern Syria after Turkey’s invasion of the border region. The statement appears to contradict US Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who has […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Turkey says Kurdish militants are withdrawing from the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ayn according to an agreement brokered with the United States, days after the Turkish army launched a cross-border offensive into northeastern Syria. “A convoy of approximately 55 vehicles entered Ras al-Ayn and a convoy of 86 vehicles departed […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces said fighter jets of the Saudi-led coalition pounded various areas of the Arabian Peninsula country 50 times in two days, according to local reports. In remarks on Sunday night, Brigadier General Yahya Saree said over the previous 48 hours, the Saudi-led fighter jets bombarded […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would discuss the deployment of Syrian forces in a planned “safe zone” in northern Syria during talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin next week. Turkey agreed with the United States on Thursday to pause its military offensive in northeastern Syria for five days while Kurdish […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A senior Syrian Kurdish official said his forces would pull back from Turkey-Syria Border area in accordance with a US-brokered deal after Turkey allows the evacuation of its remaining fighters and civilians from a besieged town in northeast Syria. Redur Khalil said the plan for evacuation from the town of Ras […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – All of the roughly 1,000 US troops ordered to leave northeastern Syria will move to western Iraq, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said. Speaking to reporters en route to the Middle East late Saturday night, the defense chief said the Pentagon had yet to work out exactly how it would conduct its […]