During a meeting on Sunday in Tehran, Peter Maurer ICRC’s President and Mohammad Javad Zarif Iranian Minister of Foreign affairs called for an immediate halt to war in Yemen. The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer who is visiting Tehran met with Iranian Minister of Foreign affairs Mohammad Javad […]

TEHRAN – Jim W. Dean, managing editor of the “Veterans Today”, has hailed Iran’s role in fighting the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group. “Iran and Hezbollah support in Syria’s anti-terrorism campaign was critical in not only backing up the badly battered Syrian army but boosting its fighting capability when much of the officer corps had defected, […]

Military strikes in the last two days have killed at least 30 people in Eastern Ghouta, the besieged suburb of Syria’s capital Damascus, where the United Nations is attempting to arrange a cease fire, UN Security Council spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters on Monday. On Saturday, the UN Security Council, including Russia, voted in for a […]

 Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi, while stressing the complexity of Syrian issue, said many actors have taken part in the resolution of crises and “we hope the ceasefire plan will reduce violence, suffering and resume movement toward a negotiated peace and a transition in Syria.” Addressing the media during his weekly press conference on Monday, […]

Air strikes conducted by the US-led coalition on settlements in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province have killed 29 civilians, local media reported citing sources. The SANA news agency reported Sunday that the airstrikes targeted the villages of al-Sha’afa and Dharat Allouni in the Deir ez-Zor province. Dozens of people were injured in the attack, the news […]

 Parliamentary official Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Sun. that US-backed terrorists in Syria are committing atrocities in the Arab country with the help of weapons gifted to them by the White House. “The US-backed terrorists and armed groups in Syria claim one day to wish to be part of the government and sit down at the table […]

The United Nations Security Council unanimously votes in favor of a resolution demanding a 30-day truce in Syria ‘without delay’ to allow aid access and medical evacuations. The resolution was adopted on by 15 votes to none,  after several delays and a flurry of last-minute negotiations. “It would be naïve to think that internal Syrian […]

The UN Security Council on Friday delayed a vote on a demand for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria, where foreign-backed militants have been pounding residential areas near Damascus. The draft resolution aimed at ending the conflict in the eastern Ghouta district and elsewhere in Syria will be put up for a vote in the 15-member […]

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov slammed on Wednesday the US and other countries’ double standards in dealing with all issues connected to the situation in Syria, asserting that their stances towards what is going on in Eastern Ghouta in Damascus Countryside is a clear example of that. In press statement in Moscow, Ryabkov said […]

Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shukri, has reaffirmed Egypt’s support for the political solution to the crisis in Syria, which preserves the unity of the Syrian state and its institutions and meets aspirations of the Syrian people. Egypt’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Ahmed Abu Zeid, said: “ Shukri, during his meeting with UN Special Envoy to Syria, […]