IRNA Head of the public relations office of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Forces announced that a 17-year-old boy who had been taken hostage eight months ago was released in south eastern Iran. Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Friday, Colonel Qasem Hassanzadeh said the the hostage takers requested 60 billion ...

IRNA Two Iranians and three other people taken hostage by Afghan nationals in Istanbul, Turkey were liberated by Interpol and Turkish security police. The hostage takers were members of a human trafficking group and asked for about $ 25,000 to release them. The two Afghans were in contact with the hostages through Imo application. Turkish ...

One of the 48 Iranian pilgrims who were kidnapped in the Syrian capital several months ago was released on Saturday,Farsreported. The released Iranian, Majid Adeli, is an employee of the cultural section of the Iranian Embassy in Damascus and was abducted along with 47 others in Zeinabiyah neighborhood of Damascus in August while they were on a pilgrimage ...

By Xinhua TEHRAN, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) --Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi on Saturday sought Qatar and Turkey's help to secure the release of 48 Iranian nationals abducted inSyriain August, Press TV reported. Salehi asked for help in separate telephone conversations with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani and Turkish Foreign ...

By AFP TEHRAN Iran's foreign ministry on Saturday appealed for the release of 48 of its citizens held hostage by rebels in Syria and threatened with execution one by one unless Syria's army withdraws from an area in Damascus province. The statement, relayed by the official news agency IRNA, described the captives as "pilgrims." The Syrian ...

Somali pirates holding Iranian sailor Shahryar Ali Abadi hostage since 2010 have threatened to kill him today, 10 December, unless they receive $100,000 for his release. In September 2010 Shahryar boarded the Malaysian-flagged cargo shipAlbedo, rented by an Iranian, bound for a two-week voyage to Kenya. The rest of the crew included Pakistani, ...

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on Monday thanked Turkish Parliament Speaker Cemil iek for Turkey's contribution to the release of Iranian citizens recently taken hostage in Syria. iek met with his Iranian counterpart on the sidelines of the eighth meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum....

Revolutionary Guards likely to be among the 48 Iranians released by rebels, though Tehran saysotherwise So, who were they at last? Pilgrims or members ofIran's Revolutionary Guards? The identities of 48 Iranian nationals who were released fromSyriaafter a prisoner swap, brokered by Turkish aid workers and Qatar, are gradually emerging. Syrian ...

Forty-eight Iranian pilgrims, who were kidnapped by foreign-sponsored Syrian militants several months ago, arrived at Tehrans Mehrabad Airport. The abductees arrived in Tehran Thursday afternoon, a day after they were released in a swap deal between the Syrian government and armed opposition groups. By Mehr News...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian state media says 48 former captives have returned to Tehran after being freed by Syrian rebels in the first major prisoner swap of the civil war. The special flight Thursday from Damascus came a day after the group was released in exchange for more than 2,000 prisoners held by Syrian authorities. The Iranians had been ...

A Damascus-based political commentator believes that the government of Bashar al-Assad has been working very hard to calm the situation in Syria and reach a political settlement in order to bring back peace and stability to the country. Iran Foreign Ministry has expressed gratitude to Syria for securing the release of 48 Iranian pilgrims abducted ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Nearly 50 Iranians headed home after being freed by Syrian rebels in a prisoner swap were stranded on Thursday at the Damascus airport by bad weather that has swept the Middle East. In northern Syria, rebels linked to the al-Qaida terrorist network battled army troops inside a military helicopter base in Idlib province. The ...

BEIRUT: A prisoner swap of 48 Iranians held hostage by Syrian rebels in exchange for more than 2,000 people detained byDamascus"exposes the extent of the Syrian regime's dependence on Tehran," a main opposition group said on Thursday. "The Syrian regime is so shameless that it is the only regime in the world that exchanges its own citizens' freedom ...

Assad regime frees more than 2,000 people believed to have opposition linksin exchange for 48 detained Iranians Syriahas released 2,130 opposition prisoners in exchange for 48 Iranians who were abducted while apparently on a pilgrimage in Damascus five monthsago. The first big prisoner swap of the 21-month war, brokered by a Turkish humanitarian ...

Iran Foreign Ministry has expressed gratitude to Syria for securing the release of 48 Iranian pilgrims abducted by foreign-backed militants in the Arab country. In a statement on Wednesday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry also thanked Turkey and Qatar for their aid in securing the release of pilgrims. The statement also congratulated the Iranian nation ...

Irannews headlines on Wednesday include Syrian rebels releasing 48 Iranian hostages; Iran building first natural gas refinery;Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation remarks overcountry's sole nuclear power plant linking to the national energy grid at full capacity;Iran's state-owned oil refining companydenying home-produced fuel contributing to pollution ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A group of 48 Iranians freed by Syrian rebels after months in captivity have arrived at a Damascus hotel. Officials say they were released after President Bashar Assad's regime promised to free hundreds of detainees in the first major prisoner swap of the country's civil war. The men arrived Wednesday at the Sheraton hotel ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's state-run Press TV reports that Syrian rebels have freed 48 Iranians amid reports that a rare prisoner swap is under way. Turkey's state-run agency Anadolu Agency, quoting a Turkish Islamic aid organization that is reportedly coordinating the prisoner exchange, said Wednesday that the rebels will release the Iranians in ...

Iran on Sunday said there are new hopes for the release of its 48 nationals who were abducted by terrorist groups during a pilgrimage tour in Syria months ago, FNA reported. "Lots of lobbying has been done so far and people would hear good news soon about the release of the kidnapped Iranian pilgrims," Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told ...

By Todays Zaman An Iranian delegation including members of the country's parliament will pay a visit to Ankara in upcoming days in a bid to secure Turkey's mediation for the release of a group of Iranian hostages who have been held by Syrian opposition forces since August. Iran has stepped up its efforts to secure the release of the hostages,...