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. […]

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt have strongly condemned the results of a report by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (OHCHR) on how severing diplomatic and trade ties with Qatar affected the country. In a joint statement issued on Tuesday, the blockading quartet said that the findings of OHCHR, whose […]

TEHRAN – Hossein Jaberi Ansari, Iranian FM’s Special Assistant in Political Affairs, who is in Sochi to attend the national congress for Syria, met with Putin’s Special Envoy for Syria Lavrentiev on Monday. Hossein Jaberi Ansari, Iranian Foreign Minister’s Special Assistant in Political Affairs, met on Monday with Russian President Putin’s Special Envoy for Syria […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s FM Special Assistant in Political Affairs, Hossein Jaberi Ansari, held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Saturday. Iran’s Foreign Minister’s Special Assistant in Political Affairs, Hossein Jaberi Ansari, who is in Damascus for a two-day visit, met and held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad on Saturday. Jaberi Ansari […]

TEHRAN –Turkish Foreign Minister says US secretary of state Tillerson proposes 30 km safe zone in Syria. The Turkish military has launched the military operation in Syria’s Afrin on Saturday after the United States announced their plans to establish security forces consisting of Kurdish militants in Syria the vicinity of the Turkish borders, reported Sputnik. […]

MOSCOW – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov expressed his country’s rejection of the latest US statements on the use of chemical weapons in Syria. “These statements are categorically rejected by us and we can’t work with the US on this basis,” Ryabkov was quoted by Sputnik Agency as saying in a response to the […]

MOSCOW – Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, stressed that the United States neglects the fact that Jabhat al-Nusra is on the list of international terrorism and wants to protect it in order to use it in achieving its goals in Syria. In a press conference in Moscow on Monday, Lavrov demanded the UN to pay […]

TEHRAN – Iran on Tuesday denounced a U.S. plan to deploy a militant force near Syria’s border with Turkey as a “blatant” and “clear example” of interference in Syria’s domestic affairs, saying the move “fans the flames of the conflict” there. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said the plan complicates the crisis and leads […]

In a meeting with his Syrian counterpart in Tehran on Monday, Ali Larijani hailed Syrians for passing difficult times, adding countries are now changing their approach towards Syria. Meeting Hammouda Youssef Sabbagh in Tehran on the sidelines of the 13th Session of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC) Conference, Iran’s parliament speaker praised […]

TEHRAN – Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Shamkhani met with speaker of people’s council of Syria and the accompanying delegation, where he said that the will of the Syrian nation will determine the future of this country. The Speaker of the People’s Council of Syria Hammouda Youssef Sabbagh and the delegation he headed met with […]