Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and Iraqi Kurdistan Prime Minister Masrour Barzani discussed the Middle East situation on Sunday at Munich Security Conference.

Borders Reopen TEHRAN (Iran News) – A border crossing on a vital highway linking the capitals of Iraq and Syria, seized by ISIL terrorists in 2014, re-opened on Monday, a report said. On Monday, an AFP video journalist saw trucks hauling cargo across the terminal, which lies on a major highway connecting Baghdad and Damascus. […]

The Daesh leader appeared in a video on Monday which the group said had been shot in April, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s first appearance in five years.

 Iranian First Vice-President Es’hagh Jahangiri said that If Iran had not operated in Syria, ISIL terrorists would have now formed a government and would have power in the region. He made the remarks Sunday at the 10th Farabi International Award in Tehran. Jahangiri went on to say that the United States has started an economic […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s minister of defense says the United States is trying to save ISIL by transferring its terrorist members from Syria and Iraq to Afghanistan to justify its presence in the region. Brigadier General Amir Hatami made the remarks in a phone conversation with his Afghan counterpart Lt Gen Tariq Shah Bahrami on Sunday. […]

US helicopters evacuated on Wednesday leaders from ISIL terrorist organization in several areas of Deir Ezzor countryside to unknown place in Hasaka countryside. Civil sources reported that a number of the helicopters came from the northern countryside Deir Ezzor and flew on a low altitude above al-Sad camp for the displaced and landed near al-Basel […]

MOSCOW – Russian strategic bombers destroyed ISIL command posts and members on the western bank of the Euphrates River in the province of Deir Ezzor. Six Tu-22M3 strategic bombers took off from an airfield in Russia towards the vicinity of Abbas town on the western bank of the Euphrates and targeted ISIL posts, inflicting heavy losses […]

Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei in a note entitled “The End of ISIL,” emphasized that ISIL plot case, to divide Islamic states, was dismissed forever, following the liberation of Syrian town of al-Bukamal. Posting on his Instagram account on Monday, Rezaei said ISIL struggled very hard to survive in al-Bukamal, as this pillar […]

TEHRAN – Lawmakers of the Turkish ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party on Wednesday criticized the US over the deal between PKK/PYD and ISIL. The deal allowed hundreds of ISIL terrorists to escape the besieged city of Raqqah. “Syria will be the second Vietnam for America,” said Metin Kulunk in a news conference on Wednesday, […]

TEHRAN – Head of Iranian delegation at Astana talks Hossein Jaberi Ansari told MNA that ISIL is on the verge of physical collapse although their ideology will remain.   Deputy FM Hossein Jaberi Ansari who heads Iranian delegation at the Syrian settlement negotiations in Astana told Mehr News correspondent that “the military and operational objectives of ISIL […]