Syria

Bomb attack kills ten in Turkish-controlled northern Syria town

Jan 17, 2020 08:30

Nearly a dozen people have lost their lives when a powerful car bomb explosion ripped through a northern Syrian border town seized by Turkish military forces and their allied militants in the aftermath of a cross-border incursion against militants of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
US military dispatches over 70 trucks to oil-rich eastern Syria: Report

Jan 17, 2020 07:25

The United States has reportedly dispatched dozens of truckloads of military and logistical equipment to oil-rich areas it has occupied in Syria’s Eastern Province of Dayr al-Zawr and the Northeastern Province of Hasakah as Washington and some of its regional allies are vying with one another to seize oil reserves and plunder natural resources in the war-battered country.
Around 350,000 people have fled Syria's Idlib since Dec. 1: UN

Jan 16, 2020 18:15

The United Nations says around 350,000 Syrians, mostly women and children, have been displaced in the country’s northwestern province of Idlib since early December last year.
Syrian Army confronts Israeli aggression on T4 Airbase in Homs

Jan 15, 2020 08:50

The Syrian Army says it has intercepted and shot down several Israeli drones and missiles targeting a major military airport in the country’s Central Province of Homs.
Rouhani: Regional nations should not rest until US troops leave

Jan 14, 2020 17:26

President Hassan Rouhani has warned about US attempts to seize control of Syria’s oil wells, among its other interventionist policies in the region, urging regional nations to spare no effort to send the American military home.
No security in West Asia as long as US terrorist forces stay: Iran's Shamkhani

Jan 14, 2020 08:02

The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) says as long as terrorist forces of the United States are present in the region there will be no security and peace in West Asia.
Expulsion from region, best revenge for US acts of crime: Iran First VP

Jan 13, 2020 18:42

Iran's First Vice President Is’haq Jahangiri says the best revenge for the United States' criminal act in assassinating Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, is the expulsion of all American terrorist forces from the West Asia region.
US terrorist forces behind regional insecurity: Iran’s Shamkhani

Jan 13, 2020 13:46

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani highlighted the US administration’s role in recent tensions and conflicts in West Asia and said insecurity will not end as long as the “terrorist forces” of the US are present in the region.
Syria awards top Medal of Honor to Martyr Soleimani

Jan 13, 2020 13:38

Senior Iranian Commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani, who was recently assassinated in a US strike, was posthumously awarded Syria’s top Medal of Honor by the Arab country’s President Bashar al-Assad.
Trump blindly following Israeli schemes in West Asia: Assad's aide

Jan 13, 2020 09:21

Donald Trump, the president of the United States, is blindly undertaking Israeli schemes in the region, says the political and media adviser to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.