TEHRAN, March 16, YJC -The United States is set to deploy about 1,000 additional US troops to northern Syria, according to a Pentagon official, following reports that the Trump administration is planning to send thousands of soldiers to the Arab country.
Several aid trucks have made their way into four Syrian villages, delivering relief supplies to tens of thousands of people there, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says.
A third round of consultations aimed at finding a political solution to the conflict in Syria has entered its second day in Kazakhstan's capital Astana.
TEHRAN, March 13, YJC - Syria's war has killed just over 320,000 people since it erupted six years ago, a monitor said Monday, noting that a fragile ceasefire had helped to slow the rising death toll.
TEHRAN, March 13, YJC -Kazakhstan says delegations from Iran, Russia and Turkey are arriving in Astana for a third round of talks to put an end to the conflict in Syria.
TEHRAN, March 13, YJC - The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) said 2016 inflicted record death and misery on Syrian children, making it the worst year ever for the rising generation.
TEHRAN, March 13, YJC -Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Countries Hossein Jaberi-Ansari left for Kazakhstan on Monday for another round of talks on Syria.
President Bashar Assad says all foreign troops deployed to his country without the approval of the Syrian government are invaders, apparently referring to US and Turkish forces.
Two bombs have exploded in Damascus, with initial reports of many fatalities among Shia pilgrims on a day which saw US airstrikes kill several civilians in the Syrian city of Raqqah.
The United Nations Security Council says intra-Syrian negotiations organized by Iran, Russia, and Turkey in the Kazakh capital city of Astana set the stage for stalled UN-brokered peace talks to resume in the Swiss city of Geneva.
Iran’s Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Alireza Jahangiri categorically blasted use of chemical weapons by terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says a total of 66,000 people have been displaced due to fresh fighting in northern Syria, where Turkey has been carrying out operations.
The US military has admitted killing 220 civilians in airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, but reports by independent monitoring groups point to staggering figures.
The latest round of the Syrian peace talks has concluded in the Swiss city of Geneva, with the United Nations hailing the negotiations as "substantive" and the talks yielding a “clear agenda” for the future of the war-ravaged Arab country.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi says his country supports a "united Syria" and a political resolution to the foreign-sponsored militancy that has ravaged the Arab country for six years and killed thousands of people.
Daesh Takfiri militants reportedly withdrew from much of Palmyra overnight amid a major push by the Syrian army to rid the ancient city of the terrorists.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has underlined the need for the Syria peace talks underway in the Swiss city of Geneva to focus on warring sides reaching a consensus on how the war-torn country will be governed during the transition period.