April 2015

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Deputy foreign ministers of Iran, Iraq and Syria held a trilateral meeting in Tehran on Wednesday to discuss the latest developments in the region During the meeting, the three diplomats referred to the end to…

The United Nations has started looking west in a despondent attempt to find asylum for the millions of refugees streaming out of Syria. Last week UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, became the most recent UN official to…

MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: The Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, and his Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu have announced plans to stop the flow of Australians travelling to Syria to fight for the so called Islamic State. The pair announced they…

BEIRUT – Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Basil said on Wednesday that the international community has a clear plan to keep Syrian refugees settled permanently in Lebanon, indicating that Lebanon would confront any such plan. During a…

BEIRUT: Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri called Wednesday after talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for the Saudi-led “Decisive Storm” military operation in Yemen to shift to Syria to remove the regime of President Bashar Assad…

Hama Province: Violent clashes are taking place between Ahrar al- Sham, the rebel and Islamic battalions against the regime forces and allied militiamen in Sahel al- Ghab, information reported casualties on the regime troops’ ranks, where…

U.S. forces have no reason to think ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was wounded in an air strike against an Iraqi target last month, the Pentagon said Tuesday. British daily The Guardian had earlier reported that the militant, who…

Republican and Democratic U.S. senators called on President Barack Obama on Tuesday to create and enforce humanitarian safe zones in Syria, amid international concerns about the dire conditions faced by millions of people displaced by the…

Reef Dimahsq province: Warplanes went in 19 air strikes since this morning on areas of Zabdin, Harasta, Bala, and Der al-Asafir what killed 9 civilians ( including 2 women at least ) in Harasta and seriously wounded many others in different…

Aleppo province: Clashes taking place between regime forces and rebels in al-Khaledia, Bani Zaid, and Salah al-Din neighborhoods, amid mutual bombardment from both sides. Rebels targeted regime bastions west of Aleppo. Regime forces…