With Syrian forces raising the national flag of Syria in the strategic town of Yabroud, foreign-backed militants will begin returning home and become a menace to their sponsors, a political analyst tells Press TV. You know this has turned into a far more regional conflict than anyone expected. The Jihadists that were brought in by the Saudis and others,...

Syrian forces have raised the national flag of Syria in the strategic town of Yabroud after retaking full control of the town from foreign-backed militants. The national Syrian flag was raised on Monday morning in the main square of the town. On Sunday, Syrian forces pushed back the foreign-backed militants from Yabroud, the latters last major ...

Soldiers of the Syrian army have made advances in their fight against foreign-backed armed groups in the northwestern part of the country. The Syrian soldiers took full control over the southern entrance of the town of al-Zara in the Talkalakh countryside and the eastern hills overlooking the town, the official SANA news agency reported on Friday....

UN human rights investigators have for the first time blamed foreign-backed militants operating in Syria for crimes against humanity. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, head of the Geneva-based UN commission of inquiry on Syria, said in a Wednesday statement that the UN Security Council bears responsibility for not addressing accountability and allowing the warring ...

People across Syria have held massive rallies to voice their support for the countrys army which has been battling foreign-backed militants over the past three years. On Tuesday, the branch of the Revolutionary Youth Union organized a demonstration in the southern Syrian city of Salkhad. Participants in the rally waved national flags and banners, ...

[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] The Syrian army has intensified its operations against foreign-backed militant groups, retaking a strategic hill in Qalamoun region, Press TV reports....

The Syrian government and the foreign-backed opposition will meet in the Swiss city of Geneva to hold the final round of talks on the crisis in Syria. UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimiwill hold a final meeting with delegations from both sides on Saturday as the negotiations wrap up. The Syrian government and the opposition ...

High-ranking Syrian and Russian diplomats have met in Geneva to discuss issues related to the talks between the Syrian government and the foreign-backed opposition. On Wednesday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walidal-Muallem and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov held a joint press conference at the Hotel de la Paix in Geneva after the meeting....

Some 1,400 Saudi Arabian citizens have joined foreign-backed militant groups which are fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a report says. Saudi Arabias newspaperAl Watansaid in a recent report that most Saudi militants, who have poured into Syria after the outbreak of the unrest in 2011, are teenagers. The report ...

As he said there was no breakthrough made at negotiations between delegations of Syria government and the foreign-backed opposition, International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said Irans presence in the peace talks could be useful. "Nobody's walking out. Nobody's running away," Brahimi said on Tuesday. "We have not actually made a breakthrough, but we ...

An Iranian deputy foreign minister has condemned the US decision to resume sending arms to foreign-backed militants in Syria as totally wrong. Arming irresponsible armed groups will not help to end the ordeal of the Syrian people, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian stated on Wednesday. Amir Abdollahian ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Syrian army continued its mop-up operations against foreign-backed militants in many areas in Aleppo. A military source told SANA that the army clashed with militants in the neighborhoods of Qadi Askar, Karm al-Maysar, al-Marjeh, Bustan al-Qasr, al-Rashideen, al-Jazmati and al-Hawouz in Aleppo city. The source added that the army ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian Army reported a successful chain of operations carried out against extremist militant groups across the country as the country awaits an international peace conference aimed at finding a solution to end the ongoing foreign-charged war in Syria. Syrian army forces launched attacks against militants in the provinces of Damascus,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Egypts Arab Democratic Nasserist Party and other nationalist movements announced their readiness to join the Syrian army in the fight against foreign-backed militants there. Sources in Egypt say the nationalist movements have realized that what is happening in Syria is a western plot and the West is using extremist groups against ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian army continued its mop-up operations against foreign-backed militants in several areas. Army units killed dozens of militants, injured many others, in addition to destroying their weapons and ammunition near the vegetable market and Cinema Fuad in al-Jbeileh and al-Rashida neighborhoods. A source told SANA that the ...

Britain and the United States have warned Syrias foreign-backed opposition of stopping their support if they do not participate in the upcoming Geneva conference. A senior official from the so-called Syrian National Coalition (SNC) said on Monday that Washington and London were adamant that the SNC should attend the conference, which is scheduled ...

[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] TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian Arab Army and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) struck a landmark ceasefire agreement to launch a joint battle against the Al-Nusra ...

[caption id="attachment_23974" align="alignright" width="180"] Iranian MP Alaeddin Boroujerdi[/caption] Tehran, Dec 29, IRNA Chairman of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said on Sunday that the western governments which militarized the Syrian crisis have come to understand their blunder after a lapse of three years and they ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian army staged a massive raid on foreign-backed militants in Aleppo and inflicted heavy losses on them. Army units killed and injured a large number of militants who attempted to attack residents of Salah-Eddin neighborhood, as they also destroyed militants' gatherings and dens in several areas of Aleppo Province, Syrian ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- At least 150 foreign backed militants were killed in an ambush by Syrian government troops near Damascus, Syria's state television reported. The attack near Qalamoun, Northeast of the capital, killed dozens of terrorists. A military official said the dead included militants from the Al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra Front, Al-Alam reported ...