Press TV - A Syrian minister has said remaining militants in southern Damascus will not be offered reconciliation deals by the government. The Syrian minister in charge for national reconciliation, Ali Haidar, made the announcement on Tuesday, noting that the militants remaining in the Hajar al-Aswad area and Yarmouk were mostly comprised of ...

IRNA The head of Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations said on Thursday that the US forces' presence in Syria will not contribute to peace in the country, and Iran considers it as illegal. 'The US should allow the Syrian people to talk with each other in order to establish peace by resolving differences, 'Kamal Kharazi said, following a ...

IRNA Syrian minister believes that the Astana consultations which have already brought concrete results contributing to the political process in the country is more effective than the Geneva talks, Russian media reported on Wednesday. The Geneva format does not stand any comparison to it (Astana platform) in terms of effectiveness,' Sputnik quoted ...

Tasnim Syrian National Reconciliation Minister Ali Haidar said he is not much positive about the outcomes of the upcoming peace talks in the Kazakh capital of Astana. Speaking to Tasnim dispatches, Haidar said the path to resolving the crisis in Syria goes through two main passageways, namely fighting terrorism and the progress of national ...

DAMASCUS (Tasnim) Syrian Minister of State for National Reconciliation Affairs Ali Haidar said those who think that a federal state could be a suitable government model to preserve Syrias unity and sovereignty are in error. Everyone who is now talking about federalism as a political plan and identity for (Syria) is wrong, Haidar told the Tasnim ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Minister of State for National Reconciliation Affairs Ali Haidar said that the US is "seriously thinking about opening channels with Damascus" following his meeting with UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi in Damascus on Tuesday. Haidar, however, added that "it is too early to talk about that, especially since the US has not ceased ...

BEIRUT (AP) -- A high-ranking Syrian official called the U.S.-Russian agreement on securing Syria's chemical weapons a "victory" for President Bashar Assad's regime, but the U.S. warned Sunday "the threat of force is real" if Damascus fails to carry out the plan. The comments by Syrian Minister of National Reconciliation Ali Haidar to a Russian state ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Syria's Minister for National Reconciliation Ali Haidar announced on Saturday that if the US wants Russia's plan on Syria's chemical weapons to go into action, it should stop its threats against Damascus. "We are speaking about a plan which falls within the framework of a complete process," Haidar told FNA in Damascus today. "The ...