TEHRAN, Jan 24 - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says American military forces will remain in Syria until Daesh terrorists are defeated, in what seems to be yet another sign of disagreement in Washington over President Donald Trump’s order to evacuate the Arab country.
TEHRAN, Jan 22 -The British Royal Air Force (RAF) is set to call back more than half of its fighter jets from Syria after US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American forces from the Arab country.
TEHRAN, Jan 21 -Russia says Syria’s air defenses shot down more than 30 cruise missiles and guided bombs during Israel's aerial attacks in the early hours of Monday.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Tulsi Gabbard, a veteran of Iraq war an a candidate of 2020 US presidency was largely criticized by Democrats and Republicans for her unannounced meeting with Syrian President Basshar al-Assad in 2017.
TEHRAN, Jan 20 - Iran's top military commander says although the United States spent a total of 7,000 billion dollars in Iraq and Syria, it has achieved nothing while the Islamic Republic gained a lot despite its very low spending in those countries.
TEHRAN, Jan 20 - Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported an explosion occurred on the highway in a suburb of Damascus.
"Explosion heard around the southern highway in Damascus area, first reports suggest a terrorist act," SANA reports.
TEHRAN, Jan 18 - The Syrian government has called on the United Nations Security Council to put an end to airstrikes being carried out by the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, saying the aerial assaults are targeting civilian and critical infrastructure in the Arab country.
TEHRAN, Jan 18 - Nearly two dozen civilians, mostly women and children, have been killed after the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group carried out a series of aerial assaults in Syria’s troubled eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.
TEHRAN, Jan 17 - Syrian Kurdish officials have arrested a group of Turkish-backed militants from the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA), who was apparently plotting new terror attacks in the country’s northern province of Aleppo on orders from Turkey's intelligence agency (MIT).
TEHRAN, Jan 17 - An Iranian parliamentary delegation visiting Syria called for accelerated efforts to carry out the trade and economic agreements that Tehran and Damascus have signed previously.
TEHRAN, Jan 17 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman lashed out at the Israeli prime minister for his warning to Iran to pull out of Syria, reminding the Zionist regime to know its limits and avoid threatening Iran.
TEHRAN, Jan 17-Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he believes the recent deadly bomb attack in Syria’s flashpoint northern city of Manbij, which killed several American soldiers, would not impact US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from war-torn Syria.
TEHRAN, Jan 16 -The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has vowed to protect Iranian military advisors in Syria, dismissing as "ridiculous and funny" Israeli threats to attack them.
TEHRAN, Jan 15 - The Lebanese newspaper, Al-Akhbar, reported on Wednesday that Lebanon’s embassy in Washington sent a confidential cable to the Lebanese authorities in which it rejects inviting Syria to the Arab Economic Summit scheduled to be held in Beirut on January 19 and 20.
TEHRAN, Jan 15 - The United Nations’ new envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, arrived in Damascus on Tuesday on his first trip since being appointed, an AFP correspondent reported.
TEHRAN, Jan 14 - A delegation of Iranian parliamentarians met with Syrian officials in Damascus on Sunday to discuss boosting bilateral ties between the two countries.
TEHRAN, Jan 13 - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has threatened to “expel” all Iranian forces in Syria, describing Washington’s declared troop withdrawal from Syria as a “tactical change” of its mission to counter Iran’s influence in the Arab country amid bolstering American military presence in the region.