The Syrian government says its forces will soon take full control of the militant-held areas of Aleppo but predicted a tough battle for thelargest city in the Arab country. "These battles are not easy, but the day will come, God willing, when all Aleppo - its rural areas and the occupied part of the city - will return to state authority," Syrian ...

Syria has condemned as a "new crime" Turkey's downing of a Russian fighter jet involved in anti-terror operation in the Arab country. Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said on Tuesday that the shooting down of the Russian warplane was a "new crime" which will add to the previous atrocities committed by the militants and their foreign supporters....

VIENNA (AP) -- Syria berated Saudi Arabia Thursday in bitter comments foreshadowing difficulties ahead for talks gathering key players and focused on ending the conflict. Syria is not at the Vienna talks, which formally begin Friday. But as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and other senior dignitaries arrived in the Austrian capital, Syria's information ...

Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi says no Russian soldiers have been deployed to his country in order to launch attacks against Daesh Takfiri militants and other foreign-sponsored terrorist groups. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Lebanon-based Arabic-language al-Manar satellite television network, which was broadcast on Monday, ...

Tehran, Sept 1, IRNA Syrian Information Minister Omran Al-Zoubi stressed the need for a true social and parliamentary action in Europe to expose terrorist organizations that are expanding and spreading their vindictive mentality of indiscriminate violence. Meeting the delegation of Dutch and Belgian political activists currently visiting Syria,...

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TEHRAN, Aug. 18 (MNA) Iran Leader's adviser said Iran and Syria enjoy strategic relations being formed since the very beginning of the Islamic Revolution. Head of Center for Strategic Research of Irans Expediency Council Ali Akbar Velayati made the remarks in a meeting with Syria's Minister of Information Omran al-Zoubi who is in a visit to Tehran ...

[caption id="attachment_91059" align="alignright" width="180"] Foreign-backed militants in the northeastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, March 28, 2014[/caption] Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi says the Turkish government is facilitating the entry of foreign militants into the Christian town of Kasab in northwestern Syria near the Turkish ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi stressed that the Syrian Army is now advancing on all fronts in the combat against terrorists across the country, adding that the battlefield has changed and there will be no turning back. In an interview with the Syrian TV on Wednesday, he said that the advance achieved by the army can be observed ...

GENEVA (AP) -- After a rocky day of U.N.-brokered talks, the United States and Russia failed to agree on a date to bring Syria's warring sides back to the negotiating table, and the two powers remained divided Tuesday over what role Iran should play in a hoped-for Geneva peace conference. The U.N.-Arab League's top envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi,...

[caption id="attachment_30690" align="alignright" width="180"] A general view of the UN Human Right Council in debate on Syria in Geneva, May 29, 2013[/caption] The Syrian government will not participate in the forthcoming Geneva 2 peace conference if the aim is for President Bashar al-Assad to relinquish power, the country's information minister ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Damascus is committed to act on the stockpile of chemical weapons in Syria based on UN decisions, Syrias information minister said. "Syria is committing itself to whatever comes from the UN," Omran al-Zoubi told Britains ITN television on Monday. "We accept the Russian plan to get rid of our chemical weapons. In fact weve started ...