ANKARA (AA) – The Syrian regime on Tuesday received the credentials of the ambassador from United Arab Emirates (UAE), the first such appointment since 2011. According to the state-run news agency SANA, Syrian Foreign Minister Fayssal Mikdad received a copy of credentials of Hasan Ahmad al-Shahi. During their meeting, they discussed thei...
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran has dismissed allegations of its involvement in the killing of three US soldiers in the border region between Syria and Jordan on Sunday, saying it “does not interfere” in the decisions of regional groups. In a statement Monday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said “resistance groups” in the West Asian region...
DAMASCUS (AA) – Several Iranian military advisers were killed in an Israeli attack south of the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, according to Syria’s state-run news agency SANA. SANA, citing a military source, said the Israeli attack targeted a number of sites south of Damascus. Several Syrian civilians were also killed in the attack, ...
Tehran, Iran – AFP Hundreds of mourners gathered Monday in Tehran for the funerals of Revolutionary Guards killed in Syria, in what Iran called an Israeli strike. It was the latest incident adding to regional tensions and fears of wider conflagration during Israel’s war on Gaza. The strike in Damascus on Saturday killed five member...
ANKARA (AA) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has vowed that an Israeli attack that killed five military advisers “will not go unanswered.” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Saturday that five of its military advisers were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus. In a statement, Raisi’s office termed th...
Damascus, Syria – AFP An Israeli strike on Damascus killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ spy chief for Syria and three other Guards members on Saturday, Iranian media said, in an attack that flattened a multi-storey residential building. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said six people were killed in the Isra...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States on Wednesday condemned recent Iranian strikes in Pakistan, Iraq and Syria, which Tehran has claimed were carried out against “anti-Iranian terrorist groups.” “So we do condemn those strikes. We’ve seen Iran violate the sovereign borders of three of its neighbors in...
TAL ABYAD, Syria (AA) – At least 10 people, mostly children and women, were killed in air strikes carried out by unidentified warplanes in southwestern Syria late on Wednesday, according to local sources. Warplanes conducted air strikes on the villages of Malah and Urman in the south of Suwayda province at around 1 a.m. local […]
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye will take additional steps if one of the government parties in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region fails to change its supportive attitude towards PKK members, the Turkish foreign minister has said. “We will not hesitate to take further measures if the PUK does not change its supportive attitude towards the PKK des...
WASHINGTON (AA) – No US personnel or facilities were targeted in missile attacks by Iran, according to the White House. “We have seen the reports, and we tracked the missiles, which impacted in northern Iraq and northern Syria. No US personnel or facilities were targeted,” National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson told Anado...
