The Russia-Turkey-Iran summit on Syria will be held in Russia in early 2019, a Russian diplomat announced Friday. The leaders of the Astana trio (Russia, Turkey and Iran) will meet in Russia at the beginning of 2019, Russian Special Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters […]

The Syrian army entered the key northern city of Manbij for the first time in six years Friday, media reports said. The announcement came moments after Syria’s Kurdish militia, left exposed by a US pledge to pull out its own troops. Meantime, Reuters reported that Syrian Troops have raised Syrian flag in Manbij. Earlier, the […]

Syria denounced Israel’s recent missile strike near the capital Damascus as a blatant violation of a United Nations resolution, adding that Tel Aviv would not have been able to carry out such attacks without support from the United States. In two separate letters addressed to the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the head of […]

Syrian Arab Army units operating in the northern countryside of Hama province retaliated against attacks by terrorist groups and attempts to infiltrate military posts. SANA’s reporter in Hama said that army units positioned in Mhardeh and Tal Bazzam intercepted movements by terrorists belonging to Jabhat al-Nusra and groups affiliated to it that had attempted to […]

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ghasemi reacted to the US’ announcement on withdrawing troops from Syria, saying Washington’s presence in the region is always a destabilizing factor. Answering a reporter’s question on a recent decision by the United States to withdraw its military forces from Syria, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said the arrival and presence […]

Es’haq Al-e- Habib, the Iranian deputy ambassador to the UN, said on Friday that all foreign forces whose presence is not permitted by the Syrian government should leave the country. In an address to the United Nations Security Council meeting on the Middle East, he said that the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of […]

The abrupt resignation of US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis sparked concern among Asia-Pacific allies who credit the retired general with building trust and tempering isolationist impulses, regional officials and analysts said on Friday. The region – which includes strong US allies Japan, South Korea and Australia – hosts some of the world’s most volatile flashpoints, […]

Ankara welcomes the US decision to withdraw its troops from Syria, Turkish foreign minister said on Friday. “With regards to withdrawal decision of the US … from Syria, we welcome the decision,” Mevlut Cavusoglu said at a joint news conference with his Maltese counterpart Carmelo Abela in the capital Valletta. Turkey fully supports the territorial […]

President Donald Trump has begun what will be a total withdrawal of US troops from Syria, declaring they have succeeded in their mission to defeat Daesh and were no longer needed in the country. “They’re all coming back and they’re coming back now. We won,” Trump declared on Wednesday in a video posted on Twitter. […]

 Russian President Putin’s special envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev traveled to Tehran on Saturday and sat down for talks with Iran’s Syria negotiator, Hossein Jaberi Ansari. These two diplomats preside over Iran and Russia’s delegations in the Astana talks on Syria. The United Nations special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura will hold talks with […]