Press TV - Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has traveled to Syria as the Arab country is conducting a major operation to liberate the last terrorist-held bastion. Larijani left Tehran for Damascus on Sunday morning.Speaking atTehran's Mehrabad airport,he said his visit was taking place upon the invitationof his Syrian counterpartand that it ...

Alwaght - The operation to take back the Syrian province of Idlib from militant and terrorist groups continues with heavy fire as it opened last week with swift advances of the Syrian governments forces and their allies against terrorists in Idlib and Hama provinces outskirts. Media reports suggest that the militant groups are retreating front ...

Alwaght - Russia, Iran, and Turkey, three sponsors of the Astana peace initiative, met in the Kazakh capital on Friday to discuss the Syrian situation. What came out of the meeting appears to be huge and fundamental obstacles ahead of a smooth and constant move towards further cooperation to put an end to the eight-year-old conflict. The main sticking ...

MNA At a joint press conference in the Russian city of Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to create a demilitarized zone in Idlib on Sep. 17, 2018. The Turkish defense minister and intelligence chief visited Russias coastal city of Sochi on Nov. 20 for high-level talks with ...

Press TV - Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Ja'afarisays the incumbent Damascus government will not allow foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists to turn the embattled northwestern province of Idlib into a new haven for themselves. Idlib is part of Syria, and it is natural for the Syrian government to fight terrorism in order to ...

IRNA - Senior assistant to Iran's foreign minister Hossein Jaberi-Ansari said Tuesday that guarantor states of Astana peace talks are trying to pave the way for step by step return of Idlib to the legal government of Syria without casualties or big problems. He made the remarks upon arrival in Moscow at the head of a delegation to hold talks about ...

Press TV - Al-Qaeda-lined Takfiri terrorists say they refuse to either leave a planned buffer zone in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib or hand over their weapons. "We have not abandoned our choice offighting towards implementing our blessed revolution," said Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an alliance led by Takfiri terrorists belonging ...

Press TV - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the northwestern province of Idlib will finally return to government control along with other territories, which are still in the hands of foreign-backed militants, "The position of the Syrian state is clear. This province and other Syrian territoriesremaining under the control of terrorists will ...

Alwaght - Russian and Turkish Presidents, following their 17 September meeting in Sochi, announced reaching an agreement on creating a buffer zone between terrorist groups and the Syrian governments forces in Idlib province, adding that the peace in the de-confliction zone will be kept by patrolling units from Russia and Turkey. The accord, ...

Sputnik - Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has discussed the implementation of the Russian-Turkish memorandum on the creation of the demilitarized zone in Syrian Idlib and Astana peace process with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. "The discussion revolved aroundthe latest meetings ...

IRNA - Regional cooperation between Turkey, Iran and Russia, and the compromise and agreement of the three countries to resolve the Syrian Idlib problem, prompted Israel's anger, said Yi?it Bulut, senior advisor to Erdo?an. Bulut stated that the Zionist regime, through advanced American technologies, has always engaged in various assassinations and ...

IRNA Iran hailed recent agreements reached on the Syrian city of Idlib by the Russian and Turkish presidents hoping that the agreements would lead to good results. We hope that the upcoming events and agreements that are a success in diplomacy will lead to good results in Idlib and we will witness a new Syria, said the spokesman of Irans Ministry ...

Sputnik - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tuesday that thanks to the meetings and negotiations held in recent weeks, including the meeting of the Russian and Turkish leaders in Sochi, the war in the Syrian province of Idlib was prevented. On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip ...

Press TV - The leaders of Turkey and Russia say they have agreed to create a demilitarized buffer zone to separate Syrian government troops from Takfiri militant groups in the northwestern province of Idlib, as Ankara seeks to prevent a full-scale operation by the Damascus government against thousands of terrorists in the militant-held region. "We ...

AP The presidents of Russia and Turkey are meeting in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi in a bid to find a diplomatic resolution to the crisis around a rebel-held region in Syria. The province of Idlib in northwestern Syria is the largest bastion of the opposition, and Turkey has been eager to prevent a potential government offensive there....

TASS - The situation in Syrias Idlib province requires a serious high-level discussion, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "The situation in Idlib is difficult, discussions will go on," he said. "You know that several days ago, there were bilateral and trilateral discussions. Today, the conversation will continue because the situation ...

FNA - Iranian Supreme Leader's top aide for international affairs Akbar Velayati underlined that his country along with Russia and Turkey (as guarantors of peace in Syria) are in favor of returning the terrorist-occupied Idlib province to the Syrian government without shedding any blood. "Discussions have been made that Idlib should return to the ...

SANA Army units targeted with artillery fires hideouts and positions of snipers of the terrorist groups in the village of Tal Othman and its surroundings in the northern countryside of Hama Province, killing or injuring many of the terrorists. SANA reporter said Monday that army units observed works of tunnel digging by bulldozers and building ...

Sputnik - Turkey has sent convoys of troops to the province, despite its defense minister having said a military operation would drag the enclave toward disaster. Turkey has sent convoys of troops to reinforce its presence in Syria's province of Idlib, the only remaining terrorist stronghold in the country, according to a report by Haaretz. The ...

AP The Pentagon says Russia will bear responsibility for the resulting humanitarian crisis in Syria if the Moscow-backed Syrian military attacks the northern city of Idlib. Eric Pahon, a Pentagon spokesman, says the U.S. and its allies are concerned about the deadly consequences if Syrian President Bashar Assad, with support from Russia and Iran,...