Press TV - Foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants have handed over a considerable amount of their medium and heavy munitions to government forces in Syrias strategic southwestern province of Quneitra as army troops continue to make territorial gains and inflict stinging blows on the extremists. Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity,...

Press TV - Takfiri militants have started evacuatingthree districts south of the Syrian capital, Damascus, which they agreed to hand back to the government under a recent deal. On Thursday, Syrias official SANA news agency reported that buses had arrived in Babila, Yalda and Beit Saham, to transfer the militants and their families from the area ...

Press TV- The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says Takfiri militants perpetrating heinous crimes across the Middle East and North Africa have no connection to Islam and the religion'smost revered figure Prophet Muhmamd (PBUH). Addressing his supporters via a video link from the Lebanese capital city of Beirut,...

The Syrian army has detected and destroyed a tunnel used by the foreign-backed Takfiri militants in the northwestern city of Aleppo. According to Lebanons Arabic-language al-Ahed news website, the Syrian forces destroyed the tunnel in the recently-liberated neighborhood ofFarafra, which issituated in the old quarter of Aleppo near the citys ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says recent terrorist attacks in France were the repercussion of Western support for terrorism. "We need to remind many in the West that we have warned of such incidents since the beginning of the crisis in Syria," the Syrian president said in an interview with Czech publication Literarni Noviny on Wednesday. "We ...

[caption id="attachment_141108" align="alignright" width="177"] A B-1B Lancer disengages from a KC-135 Stratotanker after refueling following airstrikes in Syria. (File photo)[/caption] Jordanian parliament members have warned Amman against any potential military cooperation with the US ground forces in the Middle East. The lawmakers said that the ...

The Syrian army has prevented an attempt by ISIL Takfiri militants to enter a city in northeastern al-Hasakah Province. According to a source in the province, Syrian forces on Tuesday foiled an attempt by the Takfiri militants to attack Tal al-Gazal area in southeast of Qamishli city, Syria's official news agency SANA reported. Syrian soldiers ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Supporters of the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group in Britain are coaxing British girls as young as 14 into becoming sex slaves for the militants operating in Syria, a report said. London-based facilitators are helping the teenagers to apply for passports; funding and sometimes even accompanying them to the ISIL strongholds in Syria,...

[caption id="attachment_138001" align="alignright" width="200"] The photo shows Israeli soldiers giving medical assistance to wounded Syrian Takfiri militants.[/caption] A newly released video shows Israeli soldiers providing the wounded Syrian Takfiri militants with medical assistance. The footage, which was issued by Vice News on Wednesday, depicts ...

[caption id="attachment_133959" align="alignright" width="193"] Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian[/caption] A senior Iranian diplomat has stressed the importance of adopting a realistic approach to the developments in Syria, saying the United Nations should play an actual role in settling the conflict ...

Pursuing an initiative promised by President Rouhani at the United Nations in September 2013, Iran is hosting the first conference of the World Against Extremism and Violence. Rouhani greeted participantsfrom more than 40 countries with a call for the UN to play a more active role in the campaign against terrorism. Encouraging regional and international ...

[caption id="attachment_135511" align="alignright" width="170"] Iran's Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani (R) meets with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem in Tehran on December 8, 2014.[/caption] Iran's Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani has praised Syrias perseverance and resistance against plots hatched by foreign countries. The ...

Takfiri groups are the creature of the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel, a senior Iranian military official says. Takfiri groups are the product of the intelligence services of Britain, the Zionist regime [of Isreal] and the United States, Major General Yahya Rahim-Safavi said on Wednesday. Using these groups, the hegemonic system seeks ...

ISIL Takfiri militants have kidnapped some 40 truck drivers and businessmen along the highway connecting Iraqs western province of Anbar to Salahuddin in the north, local sources say. According to a local official in Anbars provincial capital, Ramadi, the kidnappings took place when the abductees were on their way to purchase supplies for their stores....

[caption id="attachment_113212" align="alignright" width="173"] Kurdish Peshmerga forces position themselves on a road to monitor security and movements around Kirkuk on August 24, 2014.[/caption] The first contingent of Iraqs Kurdistan Regional Government forces, known as Peshmerga, will head for Syrias strategic city of Kobani. According to Peshmerga ...

Iran has sent a high-level delegation, led by top official Ali Shamkhani, to Damascus for talks with Syrias President Assad. Shamkhani has increasingly been used as a political fixer in the Iraqi and Syrian crises. Iranian State media put out Shamkhanis template declarationof cooperation: The principled stance of the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding ...

[caption id="attachment_119327" align="alignright" width="202"] Secretary of Irans Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani[/caption] A senior Iranian official has singled out the Israeli regime as the main threat to the world, urging Muslim countries to band together to counter this growing peril. The Islamic Republic of Iran regards ...

A senior Iranian official says the Islamic Republic will continue to support the Syrian government in its fight against the foreign-backed Takfiri militants. The principled stance of the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding full support for the friendly and brotherly country, Syria, which is on the frontline of the fight against terrorism, will continue ...

[caption id="attachment_109350" align="alignright" width="275"] Syrian army soldiers (File photo)[/caption] A senior Iranian official says Syria is moving towards peace and national reconciliation more than three years into the foreign-sponsored turmoil plaguing the Arab country. On Sunday, Irans Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by the AEI Critical Threats Project's Iran research team. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameneigave an address on the first day of Ramadan today: What is seen in the region today is that the enemies of Islam are fighting Muslims with an Islamic ...