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Iran, Russia engaged in strategic cooperation in anti-terror fight: Shamkhani
Aug 16, 2016 11:49Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani on Tuesday said that Iran and Russia are engaged in “strategic” cooperation and exchange of capacities to fight terrorism in Syria.
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Russia needs assurances to lengthen Aleppo truce: Lavrov
Aug 15, 2016 12:43Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says his country could lengthen a three-hour daily humanitarian ceasefire around the Syrian city of Aleppo if assurances are made that terrorists will not use it to move into the city.
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Iran, Russia diplomats discuss Syria, other regional issues
Aug 15, 2016 10:55High-ranking Iranian and Russian diplomats have exchanged viewpoints about the latest developments in the Middle East region and explored avenues for the resolution of the Syrian crisis.
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Syrian army forces recapture village east of Damascus
Aug 13, 2016 09:30Syrian army soldiers, backed by fighters from popular defense groups, have liberated a village on the eastern outskirts of the capital, Damascus, following intense clashes with foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists.
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Saudi sisters trying to join Daesh in Syria detained in Lebanon
Aug 13, 2016 09:19Security forces in Lebanon have arrested three Saudi Arabian women, who were traveling with their children and planning to cross the border into neighboring Syria to join the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group.
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US, Saudi presence in Syria illegal: Velayati
Aug 13, 2016 08:47A senior adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the United States’ and Saudi Arabia’s presence in Syrian territory is illegal.
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Takfiri terrorists kidnap nearly 2,000 civilians in northern Syria
Aug 12, 2016 14:49Members of the ISIL Takfiri group have kidnapped thousands of civilians in a Kurdish-populated city of the strategic northwestern province of Aleppo as the victims were fleeing heavy fighting between an alliance of Arab and Kurdish forces on one side and extremists on the other.
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Iran, Russia FMs discuss regional, international issues on phone
Aug 11, 2016 16:05Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, have held a phone conversation on issues of regional and international significance.
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Russia ready to extend daily truce in Syria’s Aleppo: UN
Aug 11, 2016 15:58The United Nations says Russia is prepared to prolong its recently-declared pause in fighting in Aleppo in a bid to facilitate the entry of humanitarian convoys into the northwestern Syrian city.
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Russia set to stage naval drills near Syria in Mediterranean Sea
Aug 11, 2016 15:57Russian forces are set to hold naval drills near Syria in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea next week, local media reports say.