A California-based political analyst highlighted the challenges facing the Syrian Constitutional Committee and said its foreign-backed members have little support in the Arab country and this may give them an incentive to walk away from the committee.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the United States is not fulfilling its pledge to Syria deal, in order to remove Kurdish militants from a Syrian border region and that he would raise the issue when he meets US President Donald Trump next week. Turkey launched an offensive in northeastern Syria on October 9 in […]

An American political commentator cast doubts over the success of the Syrian Constitutional Committee, whose meetings have begun in the Swiss city of Geneva, and said the US “occupation” and its focus on Syrian oilfields is the real challenge of the committee.

TEHRAN (Iran News)- Ankara dismissed allegations on Sunday of its strikes in Syria, which might have affected the US-led coalition forces in Syria battling the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS or Daesh) terrorist group. “Our troops are continuing to demine areas as part of Operation Peace Spring. Media reports are not […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Top Military Aide to the Iranian Leader, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, said on Monday that Iran’s political support and military advisory role caused the US’ defeat in Syria. “It was Iran’s advisory role in Syria and our support that caused the defeat of the United States, its Western and Arab […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Ahmad Dastmalchian, Iran’s former ambassador to Lebanon, has said that the Syrian constitutional committee is very important, because it will replace bullets with dialogue. In an interview with IRNA published on Saturday, he said, “Initiative of the Astana talks which was created by Iran, Russia, and Turkey to settle the Syrian […]

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says his country's ultimate goal is to restore state authority over Kurdish-controlled northeastern regions in the wake of an abrupt US troop withdrawal and a Turkish offensive against the Kurds there.

An author and analyst based in Sweden highlighted the root causes of the emergence of the Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group, whose leader was recently killed in Syria, and said the US-British-Saudi support to Salafism has produced suffering and destruction by such groups.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey and Russia welcomed the opening of Syria Constitutional Committee meetings as a result of the contribution made by the Astana Peace Process guarantors, stressing that the Committee should exclude foreign interference. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Russia’s Sergei Lavrov and Turkey’s Mevlut Cavusoglu issued […]

TEHRAN (Iran News)- The Syrian Army deployed a number of its troops in the Northern countryside of Hasaka province as part of its plan to counter Ankara aggression and defend the locals, further strengthening its military positions along the Syrian-Turkish Border. The Syrian government continued to deploy its forces to the Syrian-Turkish border after Kurdish […]