By Washington Post TEHRAN, Iran Irans Foreign Ministry says its holding the U.S. responsible for the fate of Iranians kidnapped in Syria. The state IRNA news agency says the ministry summoned the Swiss envoy in Tehran late Monday to stress that Iran expects Washington to use its influence to secure the Iranians release. The Swiss look after ...

Eleven of the 29 Iranian pilgrims and engineers, who were recently kidnapped by unknown terrorists in Syria, have been released through the joint efforts of Iran and Turkey. A total number of 11 Iranian pilgrims have been freed through cooperation with friendly countries, Irans Foreign Ministry Spokesman RaminMehman-Parast told reporters at his ...

By Reuters (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi visited Qatar in the past week to discuss the fate of 48 Iranians kidnapped by rebels inSyria, a deputy foreign minister said on Saturday, according to Iran's Fars news agency. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian did not say who Salehi met while in Qatar, whose ...

By Reuters Aug 9 (Reuters) - All the Iranians kidnapped by Syrian rebels last week are alive and well, an Iranian foreign ministry official said, contrary to statements by rebels holding them that three of the captives had been killed in an air attack Syrian rebels waging an uprising against the government of President Bashar al-Assad seized ...

By Guardian Iranis stepping up efforts to secure the release of 48 pilgrims held in Damascus and accused of being Revolutionary Guards helping Bashar al-Assad's regime to crush the uprising. Tehran admitted on Wednesday that some of the group were "retired members" of the elite force but demanded they be released unharmed. It has asked the UN ...

By BBC The Iranian foreign minister says a group of 48 Iranians abducted by rebels in Syria include a number of retired Revolutionary Guards and soldiers. Ali Akbar Salehi said they no longer had any military role and that they had been in Damascus for a pilgrimage when they were seized on Saturday. Fighting continues in Syria's biggest city,...

By Reuters (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said three Iranian captives were killed on Monday during an air attack in Damascus province by government forces, and threatened to kill the remaining Iranians in their custody unless the army stopped its attack. "They were killed when the aircraft attacked. One of the houses they were in collapsed over their ...

By Bloomberg Iranfirmly rejects claims that a group of people abducted by Syrian rebels near Damascus include members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Iranian deputy foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said. All the individuals are pilgrims who sought to visit holy sites in Damascus to commemorate the birth of one of the Muslim Shiite ...

By Reuters (Reuters) - Forty-eight Iranians were kidnapped while on a pilgrimage in the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday, the Iranian state news agency IRNA reported The pilgrims were seized by "armed groups" on the Damascus airport road as they returned from a religious shrine, IRNA quoted an unnamed official in Iran's embassy in Damascus ...