- Russia, Turkey and Iran have agreed on all four safe zones in Syria, including on the Idlib de-escalation area, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry confirmed after a joint statement on Friday, Sputnik reported. The three sides discussed details of the agreement at meetings in Astana, the capital of ...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meets with Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu in Damascus (AFP Photo/Handout)/ Moscow (AFP) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad welcomed Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu to Damascus on Tuesday as Syrian forces supported by the Russian army prepare to ...
A former Iranian Member of Parliament has said the fact that Syria has not fallen so far is because of Iran's support. "Iran’s support for Syria has been the reason why Syria has not fallen so far. When the Syrian president, after a city in Syria has been freed from Daesh (Islamic State, aka IS, ...
- Negotiators from the three countries sponsoring Syria peace talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, say they have reached an agreement to set up de-escalation zones in Syria for six months. The negotiators from Russia, Turkey, and Iran said in a joint statement on September 15 that the zones would ...
This file picture shows a general view of the sixth round of the Syria talks in the Kazakh capital of Astana on September 15, 2017. (By AFP)/ Russia, Iran, and Turkey, which together act as guarantor states in peace talks for Syria, have agreed on the details of a “de-escalation zone” in the ...
This handout picture released by Syria's official SANA news agency shows President Bashar al-Assad attending a cabinet meeting in Damascus on June 20, 2017. (Via AFP)/ Syrian President Bashar Assad has sent a letter to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, thanking him ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a visit to Russia's Black Sea resort town of Sochi on September 13. The Kremlin press service confirmed the meeting but did not release details of the discussions. Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif ...
16 fighter jets at an airbase in southern Israel/ Israel said it had launched strikes on weapons belonging to Syria, hours after reports that two projectiles had been fired from Syria into Israel on Tuesday. The Israeli strikes on southern Syria caused "significant human and material losses", ...
Aid distribution centres in Gaza will be closed for a day on Wednesday, as the Israeli military warned roads leading to the sites will be considered "combat zones". The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a controversial US and Israel-backed aid network which began operating last week, said it ...
Witnesses and international medical teams report terrible scenes of killing as Israeli troops opened fire in the hours of Tuesday before dawn on Palestinians who were converging on the new aid distribution site in southern Gaza. It was "total carnage" according to a foreign witness. An official ...
In Gaza, for most women pregnancy and childbirth are now times of heightened stress and fear/ Amid a deadly war in Gaza, new lives begin. But newborn babies and those still in the womb are among the worst hit by the harsh conditions. With acute shortages of food, the UN says that one in 10 new ...
At least 27 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire as they attempted to collect aid near a distribution site in Gaza, local officials say. Civilians were fired upon by tanks, quadcopter drones, and helicopters near the al-Alam roundabout, about 1km (0.6 miles) from the aid distribution ...
backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has set up four aid distribution centre in southern and central Gaza/ The UN secretary-general has called for an independent investigation into the killing of Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in Gaza on Sunday, amid disputed reports that Israeli ...
Tim Davie, the BBC's director general, called on Tehran to cease its "campaign of intimidation"/ The BBC has again accused Iran of escalating a campaign of intimidation against its Persian journalists and increasingly targeting the relatives of staff inside the country. The British broadcaster ...
Eyewitness captures moments during Colorado attack/ Multiple people have been injured after a man shouting "free Palestine" tossed Molotov cocktails at a gathering in support of Israeli hostages in Colorado, authorities say. Police said eight people - aged between 52 and 88 - were hurt in the ...
Top secret intelligence files uncovered by the BBC confirm for the first time that missing American journalist Austin Tice was imprisoned by the regime of the now-deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Former Syrian officials have also confirmed Mr Tice's detention to the BBC. The US ...
A file picture shows people seeking aid at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution point in Rafah on Tuesday/ Twenty-six people have been killed and 150 injured in Israeli tank shelling and gunfire near an aid distribution centre in Rafah, southern Gaza, medics and residents say. Mohammed ...