TEHRAN – Iran has signed a number of agreements with Syria to reconstruct power plants and electricity transmission lines in the war-torn neighboring country, the caretaker of the Iranian energy ministry Sattar Mahmoodi said on Tuesday. The Syrian government signed a contract to import Iranian power plants for the city of Aleppo, Syrian state news […]

TEHRAN  – Syria’s army and its allies continued to make gains in their battle against Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorists in Homs, managing to seize control of more areas in the central province. Syrian forces on Monday stepped up their attack against Daesh militants in the eastern countryside of Homs, expanding their control in the […]

DAMASCUS– Syrian Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister Fayssal Mikdad stressed the importance of the strategic achievement realized by the Syrian Army in cooperation with the allies in Deir Ezzor, which has suffered from ISIL terrorist organization. In an interview with Beirut-based al-Mayadeen TV on Sunday, Mikdad said that this achievement is a turning point in […]

TEHRAN  – Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement’s second-in-command, Sheikh Naim Qassem, praised recent advances achieved by the Syrian army and resistance forces against Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorists in Deir ez-Zor and said the liberation of the city amounts to the collapse of Daesh. “The preparations for the political settlement of the Syrian crisis have begun […]

About 40 ISIL militants, including four influential warlords which some are US trained, were destroyed in Russian air strike near Deir Ezzor, Russian Defense Ministry revealed Friday. Terrorist commanders were holding a meeting at the command post near Deir Ezzor, the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement. The ministry said that on September […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has reiterated Tehran’s support for Syria in its battle against terrorism. “Iran will continue to back Syria in its battle against terrorism,” Zarif said during a Wednesday phone conversation with Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem. The Iranian foreign minister also congratulated Muallem for the Syrian army’s breaking of years-long […]

The Iranian national football team was held to a 2-2 draw by Syria in the 2018 World Cup qualifier in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium on Tuesday. The result means Syria’s World Cup qualification dream is still alive. Haj Mohamad put the ball at the back of Iran’s net after 13 minutes after Iranian goalie Alireza Beiranvand […]

A Russian frigate in the Mediterranean Sea has fired a salvo of Kalibr cruise missiles at militants near the western Syrian city of Dayr al-Zawr. The frigate Admiral Essen of the Russian Black Sea fleet fired the missiles on Tuesday morning, a statement by the Russian Defense Ministry said. The barrage destroyed a communications center, […]

Syrian army forces, backed by allied fighters from popular defense groups, have reached the eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr and broken a nearly three-year siege imposed by Daesh Takfiri terrorists on pro-government areas there.

TEHRAN  – Iran’s Foreign Ministry denounced the US aerial siege on several buses carrying women and children in Syria, describing the move as part of attempts to undermine Lebanon’s victories against the Daesh (ISIL) Takfiri terrorist group. “The US siege on women and children is an illogical move given a history of cooperation between Washington […]