TEHRAN, January 23 - US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has called on Turkey to exercise restraint in its military campaign against Kurdish forces in northwest Syria.
TEHRAN, January 23 - Despite the warnings of Iran and other countries about Turkey’s raids to northern Syria, the Turkish news agency Anadolu tried to justify the raids.
TEHRAN, January 22 - Turkish police have detained 24 people for "spreading terrorist propaganda" on social media related to Ankara's military operation against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, and the capital city's governor has banned all protests.
TEHRAN, January 21 - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi voiced the country’s concern about Turkey’s ground incursion into a city and Kurdish enclave in Syria known as Afrin and said Tehran stresses the need to protect the territorial integrity of the Arab country.
The Turkish chief of staff released a video on Sunday of a tunnel that it said was used as an ammunition depot at Afrin, Syria being hit with an airstrike on Saturday.
TEHRAN, January 21 - The Syrian government on Saturday strongly condemned the “brutal Turkish aggression” against the Kurdish-controlled enclave of Afrin, and categorically rejected Ankara’s claim about having informed Damascus of the operation.
TEHRAN, January 20 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara plans to launch an operation against US-backed Kurdish militants in the northern Syrian city of Manbij as Turkish warplanes launch airstrikes on positions of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in Syria.
TEHRAN, January 20 - Iranian Foreign Minister's Special Assistant for Political Affairs Hossein Jaberi-Ansari and Russian President's Special Envoy on Syria Alexander Lavrentiev discussed Syrian developments as they met in the Russian City of Sochi.
TEHRAN, January 20 -Turkey’s army said it shelled Kurdish positions in Syria’s Afrin region on Friday and Saturday, hitting shelters and hideouts used by militants from three groups, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), PYD and YPG.
TEHRAN, January 19 - Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari started his trip to Russia on Friday to take part in trilateral talks between Tehran, Moscow, and Ankara about the peace process in Syria.
TEHRAN, January 19 - Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli said no troops have gone into Syria's Kurdish-controlled Afrin region but the operation has started "de facto" with cross-border shelling.
TEHRAN, January 18 - Turkey said on Thursday it was not satisfied with Washington's attempts to allay its concern about the creation of a Syrian border force on its southern frontier, adding its "direct mistrust" of the United States continued.
TEHRAN, January 18 - The Syrian government said on Thursday that a U.S. military presence in Syria represented an "aggression" against Syrian sovereignty, and vowed to free the country from any "illegitimate" foreign presence.
TEHRAN, January 18 -Echoing previous administrations, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said the “new” strategy in Syria will involve a long-term American military presence and regime change in order to secure US interests.
TEHRAN, January 17 - Syria’s top parliamentarian said Jerusalem al-Quds belongs to the Islamic world, stressing that Muslims will exercise their right to stand against the Israeli regime’s occupation of the ancient city.
TEHRAN, January 17 - Hundreds of families returned to their homes and towns in Deir Ezzor province’s eastern countryside which the Syrian Arab Army had liberated from ISIL.
TEHRAN, January 17 -Turkey says the military operation it plans to launch against US-backed Kurdish militants in the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin could expand to the nearby city of Manbij.