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Syria open to any initiative making way for resolution of country's crisis: Ja'fari
Dec 20, 2018 16:13The United Nations Security Council has held a meeting on Syria with a focus on a UN-backed constitutional body for the crisis-hit country, days after the three mediators of a peace process in Syria reached a set of agreements in Geneva, Austria, on the issue.
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Russia says US raising risk of nuclear war by threatening to leave key arms control treaty
Dec 20, 2018 15:51Russian President Vladimir Putin says the United States is making nuclear war more likely by threatening to leave an arms control treaty with Moscow and refusing to discuss the future of another such bilateral agreement.
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Saudi-drafted rights resolution politically-motivated: Syria UN envoy
Dec 18, 2018 09:13Syria has dismissed as politically-motivated a United Nations draft resolution presented by Saudi Arabia that accuses Damascus of human rights violations.
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Assad asks Iran, Russia to stop Western 'interference ' in Syria
Dec 17, 2018 11:19President Bashar al-Assad has asked Iran and Russia to "stop the interference of some Western states" as Syria is setting up a committee tasked with negotiating a new post-war constitution.
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Iraqi forces: US providing arms, ammunition for Daesh at border with Syria
Dec 16, 2018 12:42The US forces are providing the Daesh terrorists with weapons and military hardware at Iraq's Western border with Syria, a member of the Iraqi Parliament's Security and Defense Commission said on Sunday, adding that Baghdad is resolved to cancel strategic agreement with Washington.
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Daesh inmates suspiciously slip free from Kurdish-controlled prison
Dec 14, 2018 14:58Inmates belonging to the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group have suspiciously escaped a Kurdish-controlled prison quite close to Iraqi Kurdistan's second most important city of Sulaymaniyah.
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Iraqi aircraft target Daesh positions in eastern Syria, kill 44 terrorists
Dec 12, 2018 14:24Iraqi military aircraft have carried out two separate airstrikes against members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr as the Baghdad government has pledged to continue airstrikes on the positions and headquarters of the extremists in the neighboring war-battered country.
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Official: US, France looting artifacts in northern Syria
Dec 10, 2018 10:51A senior Syrian official says the US and France are carrying out illegal excavations in ancient sites in northern Syria with the help of Kurdish militants.
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In national holiday, Iraq marks one year since defeat of Daesh
Dec 10, 2018 10:05Iraq is marking one year since it declared victory against the terrorist group of Daesh, which had taken over nearly one-third of the country's territory.
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US seeks to whitewash terrorists' gas attack in Syria: Russia
Dec 08, 2018 12:02Russia has rejected fresh US accusations regarding a chemical weapons attack in Syria's Aleppo, saying Washington is trying to whitewash terrorists' gas attacks and distract public opinion from American crimes.