Tehran, YJC. Syrian President Bashar Assad in a letter to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani chas alled for the expansion of mutual cooperation between his country and Iran.
BRUSSELS, July 22, 2014 (AFP) - European Union foreign ministers agreed Tuesday to expand sanctions on Syria over the government's "violent repression" of its civilian population.
NICOSIA, July 02, 2014 (AFP) - For a man widely reported to be playing a key role in helping Iraq's routed military recover lost ground, Qassem Suleimani, the commander of Iran's feared Quds Force, remains invisible.
Tehran, YJC. Iran’s Head of Majlis National Security committee has led a delegation to Syria to meet the Syrian Parliament Speaker and other counterparts.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is expected to clinch re-election effortlessly next week, believes he has saved his regime from a brutal three-year insurgency, despite international isolation and calls for his departure.
The United States on Wednesday accused the Syrian government of undermining the Geneva peace talks by rounding up and arresting the relatives of opposition delegates.
US Secretary of State John Kerry slammed Russia on Monday for "enabling" Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to stay in power in the war-torn country, after Geneva peace talks broke off without result at the weekend.
As Syrian peace talks in Geneva appear to flounder, President Barack Obama on Friday vowed to apply more pressure on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Syria's opposition leader met Russia's top diplomat on Tuesday in a bid to persuade Moscow to pressure Damascus to agree to a transitional government for the war-scarred nation.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, called the tribunal prosecuting suspects in former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri's assassination "politicised," saying it aims to pressure Lebanon's Hezbollah movement.
A UN-hosted peace conference on Syria must work to remove President Bashar al-Assad from power because of his culpability for tens of thousands of deaths, Turkey's Prime Minster said in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Syria's main opposition National Coalition insisted Tuesday that President Bashar al-Assad should play no role in the country's political future, while hailing the fixing of a date for peace talks.
The UN-Arab League envoy for Syria expressed hope that a peace conference again delayed could still be held by year's end, as the Syrian opposition remained deeply divided over its participation.