The former mayor of Tehran Gholamhossein Karbaschi has been jailed for one year on charges of “insulting Iranian martyrs in Syria”, Arabi21 reported yesterday. Citing Mizan Online, the news...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Wednesday with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura in Washington. The meeting tackled Syria, during which Pompeo and de Mistura agreed that all...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said yesterday that the Syrian regime army has every right to suppress terrorists activities in Syria, including Al-Nusra Front, noting that the situation in...

A military operation in Syria’s Idlib governate and its surrounding areas would endanger the lives of at least 3 million civilians, a UN official warned Tuesday. In a written...

While Russia, the Godfather of the Syrian revolution, was talking about forcibly returning Syrian refugees to the sectarian slaughterhouses, just as they were forcibly displaced against their will, the...

Despite defeat, between 20,000 and 30,000 Daesh foreign fighters remain across Syria and Iraq, according to a new United Nations report. The remaining Daesh fighters are likely to be...

Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister said on Monday that the EU’s linking of the country’s rebuilding with the political process undermines the return of refugees, RT reported on Monday. Faisal...

Amnesty International has launched an online petition to reveal the fate of 75,000 people who were forcibly disappeared during the war in Syria. The Syrian government is subjecting tens...

Militants behind an attack on Jordanian police supported Daesh and investigations had revealed plans for more attacks on security and civilian targets, Jordan’s interior minister said on Monday. Jordanian...

Iran will not rein in its influence in the Middle East despite mounting US.pressure on Tehran to curb its regional activities, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told Qatar’s al Jazeera TV. “Iran...

Lebanon is being held hostage to internal political conflicts to an unprecedented extent given the failure of Prime Minister Saad Hariri to form a new government that satisfies the...

Can US President Donald Trump — who has warned his global trading partners not to do business with Iran for the sake of what he tweets in bold caps...

Moscow is willing to lift visa regime in some categories for Turkish citizens, Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. Anadolu reports that, following Turkey’s shooting down of an intruding Russian military jet over...

Turkey has drafted an economic action plan and will start implementing it on Monday morning to ease investor concerns, Finance Minister Berat Albayrak said on Sunday, after the lira...

The Assad regime and its supporters have begun striking Turkmen Mountain in northwestern Syria’s Latakia province to capture the region, which falls within a network of de-escalation zones as...

Russian military police have set up their first observation post in Quneitra, along the UN-controlled Israel-occupied Golan demilitarised zone, Russian news agency Interfax reported yesterday. Colonel Viktor Zaitsev, deputy...

A Russian frigate tracked a US submarine in the Mediterranean Sea in April, the Kremlin said. The frigate Admiral Essen tracked the Ohio-class submarine for more than to hours...

Syria’s seven-year-long civil war has cost the country $388 billion in economic and social damage, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) announced yesterday. “The...

A survivor of this morning’s boat wreck in the Aegean Sea told the Anadolu Agency how the human smugglers subjected the migrants to inhumane treatment before their deadly voyage....

Only 16 per cent of Russians support President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy, a Russia-based independent sociological research organisation Levada Centre has found. An opinion poll conducted in March 2016...

The Russian Defence Ministry announced yesterday that ten land, sea and air crossings have been set up to “facilitate the return of Syrian refugees” to their country. The ministry’s...

Asma Al-Assad, the wife of Syrian regime President Bashar Al-Assad, has been diagnosed with breast cancer, the Syrian presidency said in a statement on Facebook. A picture of Asma...

Germany on Wednesday reached an agreement with Spain to send back migrants caught at the German border. In a news conference in Berlin, German Interior Ministry’s spokeswoman Eleonore Petermann...

Schools have been hardest-hit by the ongoing conflict in Syria since 2011, dealing a deadly blow to the education process in the war-torn country, according to an NGO. In...

The Syrian regime’s intelligence service has arrested a number of officers assigned to guard President Bashar Al-Assad and his presidential motorcade, and moved others to various locations, the independent...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said in a report issued yesterday that as many as 528 civilians have been killed as a result of attacks on schools and...

Israel’s defence minister said on Tuesday that Syria was building up its ground forces beyond their pre-civil war size, an assessment that suggests President Bashar al-Assad’s army has recovered...

Israel’s Mossad have been accused of assassinating a top Syrian scientist over the weekend. The secret service, which was ranked the world’s leader in assassinations having  carried out 800...

The Turkish lira plunged to a record low on Monday after the Trump administration said it was reviewing Turkey’s duty-free access to the US market, a move that could...

The Syrian-Turkmen opposition leader, Tarik Solak, described suffering in Sednaya Military Prison in Rif Dimashq, known as the “Human Slaughterhouse.” He mentioned that at least half a million Syrians...

According to a report in America’s Foreign Policy magazine, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s advisor and son-in-law, “Pressed Jordan to strip its more than 2 million registered Palestinians of their...

The Syrian government has guaranteed the safety and security of refugees who choose to return to the country, Russia’s Centre for Refugee Reception, Distribution and Settlement has said. “The...