Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said on Friday that the Asian countries should take step to establish fiscal pacts and expand banking cooperation. “Now that the U.S. is imposing sanctions on various countries, many countries have considered finding other ways and they are studying fiscal pacts among Asian countries to reach a new criteria,” he […]

At a joint press conference in the Russian city of ز, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to create a demilitarized zone in Idlib on Sep. 17, 2018. The Turkish defense minister and intelligence chief visited Russia’s coastal city of Sochi on Nov. 20 for high-level talks with officials […]

The shelling of Aleppo with toxic gases is aimed at disrupting normalization in Syria, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Sunday, calling on the international community to condemn this terrorist attack. “The shelling of a peaceful city of Aleppo, which was carried out by terrorists and militants from the areas controlled by them, is […]

 The Syria’s Foreign and Expatriates Ministry condemned Sun. the decision of the US administration to slap fresh sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran which are due to enter into effect on November 5. According to SANA, an official source at the Syrian Foreign and Expatriates ministry said in a statement that Syria considers this […]

TEHRAN – A security summit about formation of the Arab NATO, the Middle East Strategic Alliance (Mesa), ended on Sunday in Bahrain’s capital. Earlier last month, there was a summit on the Arab NATO in Kuwait, an initiative pushed by U.S. President Donald Trump to confront Iran in terms of political, economy and military affairs. […]

 Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that in the absence of Iran, it is not possible to resolve the Syrian crisis, IRNA reported. “Iran is one of the three guarantor states of Astana Peace Process for solving Syrian issues and without Iran, the problem will not be solved effectively,” Putin told a conference on […]

 Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov reaffirmed the necessity of continuing to exert efforts for a political settlement to the crisis in Syria. Russian Sputnik News Agency quoted Peskov as telling journalists that the states participating in the quartet summit held Saturday in Istanbul are Russia, Germany, France and Turkey, clarifying that they are fully in agreement […]

 Asia-Pacific Ocean group at UN elected Syria as president of the Group, by acclamation, for November. Palestinian permanent representative to UN, Riad Mansour whose country leads the group in the current month, handed the chairmanship of the group to the Syrian permanent representative to the UN, Bashar al-Jaafri. Mansour and the member states congratulated al-Jaafri […]

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov affirmed that the process of eliminating the remaining terrorist organizations in Syria is continuous in parallel with the ongoing efforts to find a political solution to the crisis and the return of the displaced to their areas. Lavrov’s remarks came during a joint press conference with his Madagascar’s counterpart Eloi […]

TEHRAN – Richard W. Murphy, the former U.S. ambassador to Syria and Saudi Arabia, says the basic commitment of the United States to Saudi Arabia as assuring its defense against external aggression in exchange for its working to maintain stability in the global oil market. “Jamal Khashoggi’s fate has introduced a debate about human rights […]