TEHRAN, April 6, YJC - UN rapporteurs have urged Saudi Arabia to immediately halt a planned demolition of an entire 400-year-old neighborhood inhabited by the kingdom’s Shia Muslim minority.
TEHRAN, April 6, YJC - Russia has vowed to keep up support for the Syrian military in its fight against terrorism, calling for the establishment of a fact-finding mission to probe a reported chemical attack in the Arab country’s northwestern Idlib Province.
TEHRAN, April 6, YJC - Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanaie and Russian President’s Special Representative in the Middle East Mikhail Bogdanov discussed the recent developments in the Middle East, Syria and bilateral ties between the two countries.
TEHRAN, April 5, YJC - The Syrian ambassador to Russia has accused Turkey of seeking to establish a city near the northern Syrian city of al-Bab, citing Turkish troops’ presence and occupation of the area.
TEHRAN, April 4, YJC - In addition to the severe human suffering, war in Syria has imposed more than $16 billion of lost crop and livestock production and destroyed farming assets, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said in its latest report.
TEHRAN, April 3, YJC - Astana experts meeting on Syria is to be held in Tehran on April 18-19 following agreements made in Astana II conference convenved in Kazakhstan early March.
TEHRAN, April 1, YJC - A third group of militants and their families has begun leaving the last militant bastion in Syria’s western city of Homs under an agreement reached recently with the Syrian government.
TEHRAN, April 1, YJC - Iran has censured a terrorist bomb blast near a mosque in Pakistan, saying “steely determination” and “collective cooperation” are required to eliminate terrorism and extremism at both international and regional levels.
TEHRAN, March 31, YJC - The Russian foreign minister has dismissed accusations by the US and a number of its allies that Iran backs terror, saying the Islamic Republic is in fact a “powerful player” in the fight against terrorist groups in Syria.
TEHRAN, March 31, YJC - Heavy clashes are underway between the Syrian army and Takfiri militants near the western city of Hama, where it has killed about 2,200 terrorists in less than a week, according to state media.
TEHRAN, March 30, YJC - The United Nations says the number of refugees, who have fled the foreign-backed militancy in Syria, has now gone beyond the five million mark.
TEHRAN, March 29, YJC -The Syrian government and anti-Damascus militants have reportedly reached a deal enabling the evacuation of civilians from four small towns in the Arab country.
TEHRAN, March 28, YJC - The United Nations (UN) says about 40,000 people, mainly women and children, have been forced out of their homes due to renewed violence perpetrated by militants near the government-held Syrian city of Hama.
TEHRAN, March 21, YJC-Russia has vehemently dismissed a Reuters report which claims it is constructing a military base in the Afrin district of Syria’s Aleppo Province in alliance with the Kurdish militia controlling the area.
TEHRAN, March 21, YJC-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reiterated his government’s determination to resolve the crisis in the country through combating terrorism and allowing a political process to flourish.
The Syrian army says four Israeli jets breached the Arab country’s airspace on Friday morning, adding its air defense shot down one of the aircraft and hit another.
TEHRAN, March 17, YJC - The Syrian government has warned against an imminent disaster in the wake of airstrikes by the US-led military coalition against purported Daesh-held areas close to the Euphrates and Tishrin dams, urging UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to compel the coalition to stop the raids.
TEHRAN, March 17, YJC -The Syrian air force has fired numerous anti-aircraft missiles at intruding Israeli fighter jets, which carried out fresh airstrikes in the Arab country.