TEHRAN, November 18 - The United States does not consider itself constrained by the UN Security Council and may seek “justice” in Syria on its own terms, said the US representative to the UN, Nikki Haley.
TEHRAN, November 18 -An international investigation into who is to blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria will end on Friday after Russia blocked for the third time in a month attempts at the United Nations to renew the inquiry, which Moscow has slammed as flawed.
TEHRAN, November 17 - Russia has used its veto power in the United Nations Security Council to block a US-drafted resolution that sought to renew a "flawed" international inquiry into chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
TEHRAN, November 16 - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his country’s success to defeat terrorism and restore security lent credibility to the international law and to the right to defend a nation’s independence and territorial integrity.
TEHRAN, November 16 - Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Countries Hossein Jaberi-Ansari and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem discussed the latest regional developments and efforts to resolve Syrian crisis in Damascus.
TEHRAN, November 15 - Russian Tupolev Tu-22M3 long-range bombers launched fresh airstrikes against the positions of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group near the town of Bukamal in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr, days after the extremists recaptured the territory from government forces, supported by allied fighters from popular defense groups.
TEHRAN, November 15 - Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for African and Arab Countries Hossein Jaberi-Ansari discussed the latest Syrian developments with two Russian political and defense officials.
TEHRAN, November 14 - Syria has strongly condemned the presence of foreign military forces, particularly those of the United States, in the conflict-plagued Arab country, describing such a deployment as an act of aggression since it does not have any authorization from the Damascus government or a UN mandate.
TEHRAN, November 14 - The Russian Defense Ministry has accused the US of only pretending to fight terrorism in the Middle East, saying it has “conclusive evidence” that Washington provides air cover for Daesh in Syria.
TEHRAN, November 14 -Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says he has made clear to the US and Russia that Tel Aviv will continue to "act in Syria." It comes after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin reaffirmed joint efforts to support a ceasefire in the Syrian region bordering Israel and Jordan.
TEHRAN, November 14 -The joint efforts of Russia, Turkey and Iran on a settlement of the Syrian conflict are paying off, as the level of violence has decreased in the country, Vladimir Putin said after meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi.
TEHRAN, November 11 - The Israeli military says it has intercepted and shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) purportedly operated by the Syrian Air Force in Syria’s occupied Golan Heights.
TEHRAN, November 11 - Hundreds of fresh soldiers have been forwarded by the Syrian Army to Eastern Hama to accelerate military advances against terrorists in the region, a military source said Saturday.
TEHRAN, November 11 - Terrorist groups continued to destroy and loot infrastructures in the Northwestern province of Idlib and sell them in the black market, social activists reported on Saturday.
TEHRAN, November 11 - Three militant groups are about to form a new coalition to confront growing threats of Al-Nusra Front in Idlib and Aleppo provinces.
TEHRAN, November 11 - Iran and Syria have signed a contract in the field of electricity industry worth $1.2 billion to restore power plants and produce electricity in Syria.
TEHRAN, November 11 - In a peach in the European Forum, head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations said Iran rushed to the help of Iraq and Syria upon their request.
TEHRAN, November 11 - Syria’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari said that the West has supplied Israel with nuclear technology and worked to exclude it from international oversight.