UNITED NATIONS Wearing pinstripes and a pince-nez, Staffan de Mistura, theUnited Nationsenvoy forSyria, arrived at the Security Council one Tuesday afternoon in February and announced that PresidentBashar al-Assadhad agreed to halt airstrikes over Aleppo. Would the rebels, Mr. de Mistura suggested, agree to halt their shelling? What he did not announce,...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- An Iranian informed source in the countrys embassy in Syria rejected Reuters report that terrorist groups in the country have arrested an Iranian. The report is absolutely unfounded, the informed source told ISNA. Reuters claimed that a mainstream Syrian rebel group were seeking to swap an Iranian allegedly taken captive in the southwestern ...

[caption id="attachment_100454" align="alignright" width="195"] This file photo shows the destruction from foreign-backed militancy in Aleppos Ard al-Hamra neighborhood. (file photo)[/caption] (Reuters) - A mainstream Syrian rebel group said on Monday they were seeking to swap an Iranian taken captive in the southwestern province of Deraa last month ...

One of the 48 Iranian pilgrims who were kidnapped in the Syrian capital several months ago was released on Saturday,Farsreported. The released Iranian, Majid Adeli, is an employee of the cultural section of the Iranian Embassy in Damascus and was abducted along with 47 others in Zeinabiyah neighborhood of Damascus in August while they were on a pilgrimage ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A United States citizen working in Syria with a militant group backed by Al-Qaeda has conducted a suicide bombing there on Sunday, American officials said. The suicide attack first surfaced on Tuesday in Twitter messages from the al-Nusra Front, a terrorist group in Syria aligned with Al-Qaeda in the multi-national war in Syria, Al-Alam ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The director general of the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) described as "unfounded" claims about sectarian and ethnic conflicts in Syria, and stressed that the US is seeking destruction of the Muslim country. Ahmad Dhowa emphasized that the US has officially declared that it wants to destroy Syria. Speaking during the 7th General ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Syrian army thwarted a terrorist attempt to attack a military checkpoint in Idleb, killing several terrorists including a Saudi militant. In Daraa, the Syrian army also repelled a militant group which was trying to infiltrate into a military checkpoint, eliminating many terrorists. The Syrian military continued its campaign ...

At least 162,000 people have been killed in Syrias three-year-old conflict, a monitoring group said on Monday, and thousands more are missing after being captured by President Bashar al-Assads forces and rebels trying to overthrow him. The pro-opposition, British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said losses among fighters on the government ...

(Reuters) - Seven men suspected of fighting inSyriahave been placed under formal investigation following their arrest in Strasbourg, said a judicial source on Saturday, weeks afterFranceunveiled policies to prevent French Muslims from becoming radicalized. Confirming a report in Le Monde newspaper, the source said the men aged 23 to 25, who were arrested ...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has blasted the foreign-backed militants operating in Syria over cutting water supplies to people in the northwestern city of Aleppo. The UN chief said in a statement issued on Friday that preventing peoples access to safe water is a denial of a fundamental human right. Deliberate targeting of civilians and depriving ...

An interview with Pirooz Izadi, an expert on European affairs There have been reports that France is making efforts aimed at the failure of the upcoming election in Syria. It is said that Frances intelligence organization has given anti-aircraft missiles to the Syrian opposition with Saudi money. What is the benefit for France if the election is not ...

Syrian rebels blew up a hotel used by President Bashar al-Assad's forces in the northern city of Aleppo on Thursday, destroying the building and causing widespread damage, state media and a monitoring group said. The rebels detonated explosives in a tunnel underneath the Carlton Hotel, which is situated next to Aleppo's medieval citadel, they said....

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission called on the countrys government to impose sanctions against countries supporting terrorist groups in Syria. As a countermeasure, the (Iranian) Foreign Ministry should impose sanctions on criminal leaders, supporters of terrorists and those ...

Nasim Major General Mohammad Pakpoor, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps ground forces, stressed that there is not an Iranian in Uninform in Syria, but Iran is providing the Syrian Forces advices. Referring to the extremists of the region, he added: Despite all the efforts of Takfiris, Islamic Republic has been enjoying a good status in the region....

The ditching of Saudi Prince Bandar as the oil kingdom's spymaster does not portend a retreat by Saudi Arabia from its covert dirty wars or its hard-line anti-Shia hostility. The move has more to do with Saudi problems of maintaining internal stability, while also giving the Saudi rulers a scapegoat over its failure at regime change in Syria. Nearly ...

[caption id="attachment_92273" align="alignright" width="180"] The file photo shows a militant firing a rocket-propelled grenade during fighting in Homs Hamidiyah neighborhood in Syria.[/caption] (Reuters) - Online videos show Syrian rebels using what appear to be U.S. anti-tank rockets, weapons experts say, the first significant American-built armaments ...

[caption id="attachment_92547" align="alignright" width="180"] A woman, affected by what activists say was a gas attack, breathes through an oxygen mask inside a field hospital in Kfar Zeita village in the central province of Hama April 12, 2014.[/caption] (Reuters) - Syrian opposition activists have posted photographs and video that they say shows ...

[caption id="attachment_92542" align="alignright" width="180"] Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (L) meets with professors and students of political science college in Damascus April 13,2014, in this handout photograph released by Syria's national news agency SANA .[/caption] (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that Syria's three-...

[caption id="attachment_90678" align="alignright" width="210"] Arab leaders stand for a group photo before the 25th Arab League summit in Kuwait City on March 25, 2014.[/caption] Arab leaders struggling with an array of foreign policy disputes have opened an annual summit in Kuwait in a bid to forge a common stand on regional crises. The ongoing ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A unit of the Syrian armed forces foiled a militant groups attempt to infiltrate the Justice Palace in Aleppo, killing and injuring a number of its members. A military source said that units of the armed forces targeted militants gatherings in Aleppo and in its countryside in al-Sakhour, al-Shaar, Hanano, Bustan al-Qaser, in the surrounding ...