TEHRAN, April 01 -The Russian Foreign Ministry says the Illegal oil trade routes exploited by terrorists in Syria have been almost entirely cut off, but the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group and the Takfiri Jabhat Fateh al-Sham terror group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, are still receiving sufficient funding and arms supplies from abroad.
TEHRAN, March 31 -President Donald Trump has told advisers he wants an early exit of U.S. troops from Syria, two senior administration officials said on Friday, a stance that may put him at odds with U.S. military officials who see the fight against ISI as nowhere near complete.
TEHRAN, March 30 -President Donald Trump has announced that the US will withdraw from Syria "very soon,” just hours after the Pentagon highlighted the need for American troops to remain in the war-torn country.
TEHRAN, March 28 - Syrian government forces are reportedly preparing to stage a massive operation to liberate the last militant-held town in Eastern Ghouta if the terrorists holed up there refuse to surrender.
TEHRAN, March 27 - Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Riyadh has recently proposed ending support for terrorists in Syria provided that Damascus sever ties with Tehran and the resistance movement.
TEHRAN, March 27 - Turkey’s military killed 11 Kurdish militants in its southern Hatay province bordering Syria overnight, the governor’s office said on Tuesday, and the army said two of its soldiers were killed in a blast in Syria’s Afrin region.
TEHRAN, March 24 - The Turkish military says it has established full control over Syria’s Afrin town after more than two months of battles with the US-backed militants controlling Syria’s northern border regions.
TEHRAN, March 24 - Syrian government forces have gained control over 90 percent of the Eastern Ghouta region as militants continue to leave their last major stronghold near the capital Damascus.
TEHRAN, March 22 - Turkey warns that it will move to push the US-backed Kurdish militants away from Syria’s Manbij if it does not reach an agreement with the US on a plan to remove them from the northern border town.
TEHRAN, March 22 - Militant groups have abandoned chemical arms production facilities and over 40 tons of chemical weapons after retreating from different conflict zones in Syria, a Russian defense ministry official says.
TEHRAN, March 20 - Iran’s Parliament Special Assistance in International affairs said the Syrian crisis needs reaching a political solution, yet confronting terrorism needs fight not negotiation.
TEHRAN, March 19 - Turkish forces will withdraw from the Syrian border region of Afrin, leaving it to its "real owners", once it has been cleared of "terrorists", Turkey said on Monday.
TEHRAN, March 18 - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has visited army positions and talked to Syrian forces in Eastern Ghouta suburb of the capital Damascus, Syrian state news agency SANA reports.
TEHRAN, March 18 - Russia says more than 20,000 people left Eastern Ghouta on Sunday, using one of the four humanitarian corridors set up to enable safe passage out of the Syrian capital's suburb.
TEHRAN, March 18 - Eighteen civilians were injured as terrorist organizations, positioned in eastern Ghouta, targeted the residential neighborhoods in Damascus and its countryside with rocket shells.
TEHRAN, March 17 - The Syrian army has intercepted a truckload of weapons, including American and British ones, heading to the militants holed up in Eastern Ghouta amid its operation to liberate the Damascus suburb.
TEHRAN, March 17 - Iran's foreign minister said on Friday at the Astana conference that the Astana summits should continue until the eradication of terrorism in Syria.