TEHRAN, February 26 - Israel’s military has claimed that the pilot of an F-16 fighter jet shot down earlier this month by Syria was to blame for the crash, saying he had made a “professional error”.
TEHRAN, February 26 -Israel’s military has claimed that the pilot of an F-16 fighter jet shot down earlier this month by Syria was to blame for the crash, saying he had made a “professional error”.
TEHRAN, February 26 - Russia has warned that militants in Eastern Ghouta are preparing to launch a chemical attack which they plan to blame on the Syrian government.
TEHRAN, February 25 - Iran's top military commander said both Tehran and Damascus will comply with a month-long Syria ceasefire declared by the UN Security Council, but that attacks will continue in the Damascus suburbs held by terrorists.
TEHRAN, February 25 - The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution proposing a 30-day humanitarian ceasefire in Syria after several days of tense behind-the-scenes negotiations.
TEHRAN, February 23 - Human Rights Watch has criticized the Ankara government’s ongoing cross-border offensive in Syria’s northwestern region of Afrin against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), stating that the Turkish military has failed to adopt necessary measures to avoid civilian casualties.
TEHRAN, February 23 - Iran is working closely with Syria in order to bring calm back to parts of the Arab country that have witnessed renewed violence as a result of increased terrorist activities over the past days, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said.
TEHRAN, February 22 - Hundreds of Syrians have held a demonstration in Afrin to celebrate the arrival of pro-government fighters in the northwestern city that has been the target of Turkish attacks.
TEHRAN, February 20 - The US-backed People's Protection Units (YPG) have denied reaching an agreement with Damascus over Syrian troops being deployed to Afrin to fend off a Turkish offensive.
TEHRAN, February 19 - Turkey’s Interior Ministry said police and prosecutors had arrested 786 people over the past week for propaganda, provocation and protests against the military’s incursion into Kurdish-controlled Afrin in northern Syria.
TEHRAN, February 19 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Syria is facing a "new wave" of US intervention, where Washington is still pursuing geoeconomic interests in the Arab country.
TEHRAN, February 19 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif reiterated that Syrian military response to Zionist regime is a new and important gain.
TEHRAN, February 19 - Iranian FM said on Monday morning that the United States is dangerously using some Syrian minorities as a tool in line with its own goals.
TEHRAN, February 17 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has censured the “illegal” military presence of the United States on the ground in Syria, saying Washington plans to keep its forces in the Arab country “forever.”
TEHRAN, February 16 - The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has praised the recent downing of an Israeli F-16 fighter jet by the Syrian air defense systems as a “very big military achievement.”