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 ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Tens of the Syrian opposition forces surrendered themselves to the Muslim countrys army in Damascus countryside in Southern Syria. A sum of 250 Syrian opposition forces admitted defeat and surrendered themselves in Barzeh in Damascus countryside after being under the siege of the army and the national defense forces for more than ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered the country's security forces to arrest the al-Qaeda-linked Takfiri terrorists who fight against Syria and have hideouts in Turkey. According to FNA dispatches, Erdogan has ordered the Turkish intelligence agencies and police forces to stop and apprehend the militants who have training ...

The Syrian army continues to tighten the noose around foreign-backed militants in the Damascus countryside of al-Muqaddimah,Press TVreports. Syrian government forces have regained control of al-Muqaddimahs industrial zone, which has been a scene of a fierce battle between the army and the militants, a Press TV correspondent reported on Tuesday. The ...

Turkish military forces have fired artillery at targets held by al-Qaeda-linked Takfiris in Syria in retaliation for an attack by the militants. On Tuesday, the Turkish soldiers shot four rounds from self-propelled artillery guns at positions in the border town of Azaz under the control of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the army ...

Saudi foreign minister has called for more support for Syrias foreign-backed militants to change the balance of power on the ground. Prince Saud al-Faisal made the comments as the so-called Friends of Syria group held a meeting on the sidelines of the 68th United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York on Thursday. The United States, Britain,...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says confessions from foreign-backed militants in Syria suggest that they used chemical weapons in recent fatal attacks. During an interview with Venezuelas state-run network Telesur, Assad said militants had confessed to bringing chemical weapons into Syria and that the Syrian army had discovered chemical weapons ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Russia insists that all chemical weapons in Syria, including chemical arms components possibly held by Syrian opposition forces, should be destroyed, the Russian Foreign Minister said. Speaking after a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry in New York, Sergei Lavrov said both the Russian and the American side stressed ...

[caption id="attachment_48975" align="alignright" width="210"] Several militants operating in Syria[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian Army continued its operations against the terrorist groups in many provinces, killing dozens of them and destroying their gatherings and dens. Army kills militants, seizes their Israeli-made weapons in Damascus ...

Syrian army units continue their offensive against foreign-backed militants in several parts of the country,Press TVreports. On Monday, the Syrian army continued mop-up operations on the outskirts of the capital Damascus and the south-western city of Daraa. A number of militants were killed when they engaged in battle with Syrias national defense ...

Turkish President Abdullah Gul says his country is not able to prevent infiltration of militants from neighboring Syria into its territory despite tight security measures along the border. Gul told Turkish press from New York, where he is attending the UN General Assembly session, on Monday that radical groups are infiltrating into Turkey from Syrian ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Syrian armed opposition may be ordered by its foreign sponsors to stage a false flag operation against foreign inspectors when they arrive in the country to monitor destruction of the countrys chemical weapons stockpile, said the Syrian president. Bashar Assad voiced his concerns in an interview by China's state television ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A mortar shell landed in the compound of the Russian embassy in central Damascus but there was no immediate report of casualties, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Rebels have launched several mortar and rocket attacks nto the centre of the Syrian capital on Sunday, where many embassies and senior Syrian officials ...

Fighting between al-Qaeda-linked extremists and another militant group in northern Syria prompts Turkey to shut one of its border gates with the Arab country. On Thursday, Turkish border authorities temporarily closed the gate, located in the southern province of Kilis. The gate was closed after militants from the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian legislator said the UN inspectors' report confirming the use of chemical weapons in Syria indicated that the rebels had conducted the August 21 attack on Ghouta in Damascus countryside. "The report shows that the Syrian government has not used chemical weapons," member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Tunisian security forces disbanded a terrorist group which recruited the country's young people for the war on the Syrian government. According to a report by Al-Youm al-Sabe' news website, Tunisia's security apparatus announced on Saturday that the country's counter-terrorism units disbanded a terrorist group which recruited the ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Rebels and local residents in Ghouta accused Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan of providing chemical weapons to an al-Qaeda linked rebel group. Ghouta, Syria As the machinery for a US-led military intervention in Syria gathers pace following last weeks chemical weapons attack, the US and its allies may be targeting the wrong side, ...

Iranian journalist and documentarist Hadi Baghbani�has been killed by foreign-backed Salafi terrorists near the Syrian capital, Damascus.   By Fars News Agency

TEHRAN (FNA)- A unit of the Syrian armed forces targeted Thursday a terrorist group in Dourin village in Sulnfeh area in the countryside of Lattakia, killing and injuring a large number of terrorists, including non-Syrians, during the clashes. A military source told the Syrian news agency that among the killed terrorists were Moroccan Karim Ayet ...