Syria

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh says Tehran is opposed to any military action and use of force against other countries with the aim of resolving disagreements. He made the remarks in response to a question about a planned Turkish military action on Syria-Iraq border.

Syrian government sources say at least three people were killed at Damascus International Airport on Friday in a missile attack from Israel.

A barrage of rockets has reportedly hit a military facility housing US forces in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah. The casualties and the extent of the damage is still unclear.

Israel carried out fresh airstrikes on Syria’s northwestern province of Hama late on Friday, killing at least five people, including a civilian, according to Syrian media.

At least four Syrian army troops have been killed and three others injured after Israeli missiles hit the outskirts of the capital, Damascus.

Washington is disappointed and troubled by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's visit to the United Arab Emirates and that does not support efforts to ‘legitimise’ him, State Department spokesperson Ned Price says.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has met Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in Dubai, the Syrian presidency announced in a statement. This is Syrian leader's first visit to an Arab state since the war began in 2011.

The new leader of Daesh, whose appointment the group announced on Thursday, is the brother of slain former so-called caliph of the terror group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to two Iraqi security officials and one Western security source.

Iran says it reserves the right to respond to Israel’s recent missile attack which left two Iranian military advisers dead in the Syrian capital Damascus.

An Iranian official has strongly criticized politicizing the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) by certain countries to ‘achieve politically-motivated goals.’

Iran has held a mass funeral for two Iranian military advisers and members of the IRGC killed in an Israeli missile attack on the Syrian capital Damascus earlier this week.

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the Israeli regime will pay for its criminal missile attack on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, which killed two Iranian defenders of Shrine in the Arab country.

Israel has launched a missile attack on an area near the Syrian capital Damascus, killing at least two civilians and causing damage.

One soldier has been killed and several others were wounded after an explosive device hit a bus carrying Syria’s military personnel in Damascus.

US intelligence agencies plan to direct extremists in Damascus and Latakia to target Syrian security forces, as well as Iranian military advisers and Russian military personnel, Moscow has revealed.

Several civilians, including women and children, have been killed in US special operation in northwest Syria, according to residents and fighters.

The United States has announced that its allied Kurdish forces in Syria have successfully retaken a prison following an attack by the Daesh that left dozens dead. 

Four rockets have hit a US military camp in the city of al-Shaddadi in the Syrian province of al-Hasakah. It is the latest in a series of attacks that have targeted US forces over the past few months in the region.

Iran and Russia have called for the complete withdrawal of foreign forces from Syria. Tehran and Moscow have argued that the latest spate of deadly violence in Hasakah Province is the upshot of illegal presence of occupation troops, particularly Americans.

Jordan said its troops have killed 27 suspected smugglers attempting to enter the country from neighboring Syria, adding that some others also carrying drugs fled back into Syria.

Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bassam Sabbagh says the US is behind the latest spate of deadly violence in the northeastern province of Hasakah. He warned that Washington is seeking to revive the Daesh terror group so that it can justify its occupation of the Arab country.

Iraq has tightened security measures on the borderline with neighboring Syria after a jailbreak by militants of the Daesh terror group in a Kurdish-controlled prison in Hasakah Province.

Fighting raged on Saturday between Daesh and Kurdish forces in northern Syria after attackers stormed a prison housing members of the armed group. At least 70 people have been killed so far.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again criticized the United States’ support for ‘terrorist organizations’ in Syria.

The United Nations’ special envoy for Syria says the developments in Syria have convinced involved parties that no regime change would be necessary in the Arab country.