Press TV - Turkey has agreed to end the military offensive in northern Syria after Kurdish fighters withdraw from a safe zone, US Vice President Mike Pence has said. Ankaras incursion "will be halted entirely on completion" of the withdrawal, Pence told reporters following more than five hours of negotiations between a US delegation and Turkish ...

Press TV - Turkey has accusedKurdish militants of violating a temporary truce in northern Syria even as a fragile ceasefire was reported to b holding. Ankara on Thursday agreed to pause its incursion into Syria for 120 hours while the US facilitates the withdrawal of Kurdish SDF militantsfrom a 20-mile safe zone along the Syrian-Turkish border. Reuters ...

Bloomberg | Bobby Ghosh: Any number of players including Trump could undermine the plan negotiated by Erdogan and Pence. At first blush, it appears the five-day cease-fire in northeastern Syria puts Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the catbird seat. If all goes according to the plan he worked out with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, he ...

MNA Iran, Russia and Turkey, guarantors of the Syria ceasefire, issued a joint statement on Thursday, reaffirming their strongcommitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity oftheSyrian Arab Republic and to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. Here is the full text of the statement: The Islamic ...

Press TV - One of the main militant groups active in Syrias Eastern Ghouta says it is negotiating with the United Nations about a ceasefire, as the government troops constantly shrink the militant-held areas of the flashpoint region. We are engaged in arranging serious negotiations The most important points under negotiation are a ceasefire,...

Reuters - French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Thursday pressed Russia and Iran to use their influence over Syrias President Bashar al-Assad to ensure Damascus respects a U.N. resolution calling for a 30-day ceasfire. Le Drian also reiterated that France will respond if it is proven chemical weapons have been used and killed people. French ...

Press TV - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the implementation of a daily ceasefire in Syrias Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta from Tuesday and thecreation ofa "humanitarian corridor" through which civilians can leave the militant-held area. "On the instructions of the Russian president, with the goal of avoiding civilian casualties ...

IFP - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Monday, February 26, and picked headlines from 22 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. A resolution adopted by the UN Security Council on a 30-day ceasefire in Syria was the top story in almost all newspapers today. Some ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi, while stressing the complexity of Syrian issue, said many actors have taken part in the resolution of crises and we hope the ceasefire plan will reduce violence, suffering and resume movement toward a negotiated peace and a transition in Syria." Addressing the media duringhis weekly press ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:     Terrorists should be wiped off Syria: Iranian General The Syrian territory, within next months, should be cleansed of terrorists, Chief of Staff for the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran said on Sunday. No need to meet IAEA requirements for N-propulsion Alaeddin ...

RT - After several days of tense behind-the-scenes negotiations, the UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution proposing a 30-day humanitarian ceasefire in Syria. The proposal came amid escalating violence in East Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, which has seen a new wave of clashes between Syrian government forces and both rebel and ...

Tasnim Russias Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia said a recent resolution demanding a 30-day truce in Syria does not preclude Syrian forces from targeting Daesh and al-Nusra Takfiri militants operating in some parts of the Arab country. The ceasefire does not preclude forces inside Syria from targeting Islamic State (Daesh), Al Nusrah and other ...

IFP - Irans highest-ranking military commander says both Tehran and Damascus will adhere to the ceasefire resolution, but parts of the suburbs of Damascus controlled by the terrorists are not subject to the ceasefire. Major General Mohammad Baqeri, the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, told reporters on Sunday that the Iranian and ...

TASS- The Turkish party has registered no cases of ceasefire violations, the defense authority added Russian observers registered six ceasefire violations in Syria in the past 24 hour, the situation in the de-escalation zones remains stable, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a bulletin on Sunday. "Control groups continue monitoring the ceasefire ...

Sputnik - Militants have violated the ceasefire regime in Syria's Homs de-escalation zone, killing one civilian and injuring two more, local media reported Friday. BEIRUT (Sputnik) According tothe SANA news agency, terrorist groups violated the ceasefire regime byshelling civilian houses inthe Ar Rastan district, located north ofHoms. The ...

Sputnik - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said he expects that the issue of setting up the fourth and final Syrian de-escalation zone in Idlib will be successfully resolved during talks with Russia and Iran. ANKARA (Sputnik) On August 6, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that work onsetting upthe fourth Syrian ...

Sputnik - Israel, Russia and the United States held several rounds of secret talks to discuss the ceasefire in southern Syria and creation of de-escalation zones on the country's borders with Israel and Jordan, the Haaretz newspaper reported Wednesday, citing Israeli and European politicians. MOSCOW (Sputnik) According tothe news outlet,...

Press TV - A ceasefire has reportedly taken effect on the Lebanese side of the border with Syria near the town of Arsal, where Hezbollah resistance fighters havebeen combating Takfiri militants over the past week. Lebanon-based al-Manar television network and the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported on Thursday that the ceasefire in ...

Alwaght-The US is growing concerned as it has lost its influence in the Syrian crisis and is no longer a key actor on the scene. The Russian-initiated Astana peace talks coincided with the US presidential election and so Washington had no time to influence the process. After the election, the newly-installed President Trump was yet to determine ...

Al-Monitor | Hamidreza Azizi: As various international peace initiatives have sought a political solution to the Syrian crisis, the most recent tangible breakthrough came from someplace new. On July 9, the long-awaited meeting between the presidents ofRussia and the United Statestook place on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, wherethe ...