Al Manar - Syria strongly condemned a US missile attack targeting an army airbase near Homs as an act of aggression, while the Zionist entity and Syrian armed opposition groups calling for further attacks. The US military launched about 60 Tomahawk missiles against several targets on al-Shayrat air base 38 kilometers southeast of the city of Homs....

GENEVA (AP) -- The main Syrian opposition delegation vowed Saturday not to participate in U.N.-sponsored peace talks with the government unless their demands are met, including lifting the siege imposed on rebel-held areas and an end to Russian and Syrian bombardment of regions controlled by opposition fighters. The oppositions warned that if these ...

The United States is urging the invited Syrian opposition groups to participate in the upcoming talks in Geneva without preconditions. The talks on a ceasefire were supposed to have started on Monday, but they have been put off until Friday due to disagreements over who should sit at the negotiating table. At a press briefing on Wednesday,...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Gulf Arab officials on Saturday to ease their concerns about warming U.S.-Iranian ties and seek consensus on which Syrian opposition groups should be represented at upcoming peace talks. Kerry held talks in Riyadh with foreign ministers from the Gulf Cooperation Council who ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the Syrian Opposition Coalition (SCO) Ahmad Jarba called the members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, NCRI or PMOI) as brothers of the Syrian opposition. "The MKO and the Syrian Opposition Coalition are brothers," Jarba said in a meeting with MKO ringleader Maryam Rajavi in Paris a ...

More than 50 US citizens have joined Syrian rebels and are fighting to overthrow Syrian government. Some of the US citizens, who have been trained by al-Qaeda-linked groups and have returned back to America, are under FBI surveillance, US intelligence officials said Thursday. Counter-terrorism officials fear that these trained ready-to-be terrorists ...

Having been relatively quiet during the 10-day Geneva II conference, Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed Syrias opposition on Saturday. Zarif saidon the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, I do not believe that negotiating based on illusions of the power of the opposition in Geneva, which hardly controls any ground inside ...

[caption id="attachment_45622" align="alignright" width="180"] Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif[/caption] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned that negotiating based on the illusions of power by the foreign-backed Syrian opposition does not help achieve a peaceful resolution to the countrys crisis. I do not believe ...

The fate of the next round of the long-awaited Geneva 2 peace talks hangs in the balance, after the first session ended in acrimony with no sign of progress, even on humanitarian issues. Diplomatic niceties, maintained for the duration of the week-long talks behind closed doors, were dropped as soon as representatives of both sides staged their final ...

GENEVA (AP) -- The key issue of a transitional government to replace President Bashar Assad blocked any progress Monday in Syrian peace talks, described by one delegate as "a dialogue of the deaf." The chief U.N. mediator expressed frustration over inflammatory public remarks by the two sides as he sought to identify some less-contentious issues in ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 28 (MNA) Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Syrian opposition is dreaming if they think they can oust President Bashar al-Assad because they are in no position to overthrow the Syrian government. In an interview with the Swiss daily Neue Zrcher Zeitung, Zarif said that the main goal for all sides in the Syria conflict ...

Amid the Geneva 2 peace conference, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that no talks will take place with terrorists in Syria. Meanwhile, UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi hopes aid will enter the besieged city of Homs on Monday. "We refuse to have talks and do not recommend other parties to hold talks with them over principled considerations,...

[caption id="attachment_79040" align="alignright" width="180"] Gathering expectation: (L-R) Lakhdar Brahimi, John Kerry, Ban Ki-moon and Sergei Lavrov in Montreux[/caption] The first day of face-to-face talks between Syrias rival sides did not yield substantial results, International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi told reports Saturday, adding that he hoped ...

The Syrian opposition involved in the Geneva 2 peace talks said a face-to-face meeting with President Bashar Assads representatives is unlikely to happen. Formal discussions on how to alleviate the ferocious civil war are set to begin on Friday. United Nations mediator Lakhdar Brahimi will move between the two delegations at thetalks in Switzerland,...

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- Iran's foreign minister called Friday for foreign fighters to leave Syria so that its people can decide their future themselves. Speaking on a panel discussion about the Middle East at the World Economic Forum, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran also wants to see an end to foreign support for opponents ...

GENEVA (AP) -- Bending to intense international pressure, Syria's government and the Western-backed opposition agreed Friday to face each other for the first time since the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad. After three days of hostile rhetoric and five hours spent assiduously avoiding contact within the United Nations, the two ...

[caption id="attachment_73710" align="alignright" width="180"] A militant is seen clashing with Syrian government forces in the Salaheddin neighborhood of Syria's Aleppo on December 11, 2013.[/caption] (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on rebels in Syriato stop fighting each other as a faction linked to his group pushed rival insurgents ...

MONTREUX, Switzerland (AP) -- The head of Syria's Western-backed opposition says any discussion of President Bashar Assad staying in power will effectively end peace talks before they have begun. Ahmad al-Jarba, head of the Syrian National Coalition, said the purpose of the peace conference beginning Wednesday in Switzerland was to set up a transitional ...

[caption id="attachment_79040" align="alignright" width="180"] Gathering expectation: (L-R) Lakhdar Brahimi, John Kerry, Ban Ki-moon and Sergei Lavrov in Montreux[/caption] A major conference aimed at finding a political solution to the three-year conflict in Syria that has left 100,000 dead is due to start in Switzerland. The Syrian government and ...

Syrias deeply divided foreign-backed opposition has postponed voting on whether to attend next weeks Geneva IIconference. The so-called Syrian National Coalitions spokesman, Anas al-Abda, said late on Friday that the voting has been delayed until Saturday noon. The voting on Geneva II participation has been postponed until tomorrow noon, for ...