TEHRAN, October 05 - Former US secretary of defense Chuck Hagel says the limited number of American troops in northeastern Syria can do nothing to drive Iranian forces out of the Arab country.
TEHRAN, October 04 -Turkey’s parliament has approved a motion to extend for another year the state’s authority to launch cross-border operations in neighboring Iraq and Syria.
TEHRAN, October 03 -Russian President Vladimir Putin says the presence of US troops in Syria, providing support to anti-Damascus militant groups in the Arab country, violated the United Nations Charter.
TEHRAN, October 03 -Iran has signed an agreement to build a 540-megawatt (MW) gas fired power plant in Syria’s coastal city of Latakia, asserting its role in the Arab’s country reconstruction after years of an imposed war.
TEHRAN, September 30 -A senior Israeli official has admitted that Russia's delivery of S-300 anti-aircraft missile defense systems to Damascus will pose a serious "challenge" to the regime.
TEHRAN, September 30 - The first militant group has begun withdrawing its members and heavy arms from a recently-declared buffer zone in Syria's Idlib Province, a UK-based monitoring group says.
TEHRAN, September 30 - Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem says the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has been doing everything it could since the onset of its airstrikes but combat terrorism and militant outfits wreaking havoc in the Arab country.
TEHRAN, September 29 -Iran is a major player in resolving the Syria crisis, says an analyst, adding that it is one of the countries that is preventing an “absolute chaos” in the Middle East.
TEHRAN, September 29 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says his country has already started delivering the S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system to Syria as part of its efforts to ensure the safety of Russian forces in the Arab country.
TEHRAN, September 26 -A senior Syrian official says an advanced air defense system slated to be supplied by Russia soon will force Israel to "think carefully" before conducting any further aerial attacks on the country.
TEHRAN, September 25 - Turkish military vehicles have entered Idlib after militants snubbed an agreement between Turkey and Russia for the creation of a buffer zone in the northwestern Syrian province, the last major militant stronghold in the Arab country.
TEHRAN, September 23 - Syrian government forces have intercepted and targeted an unmanned aerial vehicle as it was flying in the skies over the western coastal province of Latakia, where Russia has an air base and from which its fighter jets conduct airstrikes against Daesh terrorists and foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants in the conflict-plagued Arab country.
TEHRAN, September 23 -The Russian Defense Ministry says “misleading” information from the Israeli Air Force Command has in fact downed a Russian Ilyushin Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft off a Syrian coast, holding the Israeli regime fully responsible for the tragic event, which killed more than a dozen servicemen.
TEHRAN, September 22 - Russia and Turkey have reached a consensus on borders of a demilitarized zone in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, which is the last major stronghold of anti-Damascus militants, in an attempt to avert a possible full-scale offensive by the Syrian government against terrorists in the militant-held region.
TEHRAN, September 21 - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the United States' control over the eastern bank of the Euphrates River poses the biggest threat to Syria's territorial integrity.
TEHRAN, September 20 - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the Tel Aviv regime is to blame for the tragic deaths of over a dozen Russian servicemen aboard an Il-20 surveillance aircraft, which was accidentally shot down by Syrian air defenses while they were responding to a wave of Israeli air raids.
TEHRAN, September 20 - Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said Moscow plans to continue talks with Tehran and Ankara on ways to help end the suffering of the Syrian people in the northwestern province of Idlib, the last major terrorist stronghold in the Arab country.
TEHRAN, September 19 - Syrian government forces have uncovered a considerable amount of Israeli-made medicine and medical supplies in a field hospital belonging to foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants in the country’s strategic southwestern province of Quneitra.