U.S. magazine names Qassem Soleimani top defense thinker of year

TEHRAN – The Washington-based magazine Foreign Policy has put Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Major General Qassem Soleimani at the top of its 2019 list of Global Thinkers in the defense and security field.

Shamkhani: Polls remedy for crises in Palestine, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen

TEHRAN – Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, says the Islamic Republic has gone into Syria in order to reinforce the Syrian defense infrastructure.

Iran warns Netanyahu about threatening Iran

TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should stop threatening Iran.

Iran says it will keep what it has in Syria

TEHRAN – Iran will keep what it has in Syria, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday, defying Israeli threats that Iranian forces might be targeted if they do not leave the country.

‘U.S. played no role in defeat of Daesh in Iraq, Syria’

TEHRAN – Iran’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that it was the Syrian and Iraqi people who defeated Daesh and the U.S. played no role in this respect.

Officials call for closer Tehran-Damascus ties

TEHRAN – The chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee and Syrian President Bashar Assad in a Monday meeting underlined the importance of enhanced ties between the two countries.

Iran to continue advisory role in Syria: general

TEHRAN – Hassan Firouzabadi, the former chief of the Iranian armed forces, said on Monday that Iran will keep its military advisors in Syria to help Damascus in the war against terrorism.

Parliamentary delegation in Syria for talks

TEHRAN – An Iranian parliamentary delegation left Tehran on Sunday morning for Damascus to discuss parliamentary ties with Syrian officials, Mehr reported.

Jaberi Ansari discusses Syria with Russian military, diplomatic officials

TEHRAN - Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a senior advisor to the Iranian foreign minister for political affairs, held meetings with a number of Russian officials in Moscow on Thursday, discussing the latest developments surrounding Syria.

Book review by Mohammad Hashemi  

Armageddon in the Orient: How the Saudi-Connection targets Iran

TEHRAN - On the afternoon of February 14, 1945, King Abdul Aziz, the founder of Saudi Arabia, set foot on board the USS Quincy in the Suez Canal for a secret official meeting with the United States president.

By Hanif Ghaffari

Merkel and Macron's secret disputes

TEHRAN - In spite of European senior officials' emphasis on cooperation among the EU leaders, such a cooperation doesn't exist in practice. Under such circumstances, the political and economic disagreements between Berlin and Paris are still going on. These disagreements are indicative of German-French conflicts in resolving the European economic crisis.

Iranian, Syrian defense officials hold talks

TEHRAN – Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami met on Monday with Syrian Deputy Defense Minister Mahmoud al-Shawa in Tehran, where the two sides discussed the latest developments in the regional countries, particularly in Syria.

By Ramin Hossein Abadian

Tel Aviv’ fears the future; what Zionists are concerned most about

TEHRAN - These days, Israeli officials are not feeling so hot, and are extremely concerned about the future, as it is quite evident in Tel Aviv's statements. 

By Martin Love

For Iran as with Syria, a critical mass of unified and determined citizens will defeat aggressors

TEHRAN - No one can say whether U.S. President Donald Trump is changing his stripes. But he is sure as the perfection of the Muslim “Jannah” or the beauty of an exquisite Iranian rose or a fine carpet from Shiraz shaking up his usual allies, and not those merely in the U.S., but overseas, too.

Iran capable of supplying Syria with various food types

TEHRAN- “Iran is able to supply Syria with all types of foodstuff,” the Secretary of the Federation of Iranian Food Association Kaveh Zargaran told Tasnim news agency on Friday.

By staff and agency

Trump: Iran can do what it wants in Syria 

Following his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iran “can do what they want” in Syria.

By Payman Yazdani

Ill-planned operation in Syria could land Turkey in quagmire: Turkish analyst 

TEHRAN - Turkish political analyst Semih Idiz believes that any ill-planned military operation by Turkey in Syria can land Ankara in a quagmire.

By Mohammad Ghaderi

The UAE reopens embassy in Damascus; Arabs in line to return to Syria

TEHRAN - Besides the security developments in Syria that have always made headlines and the Zionist’s attacks on Syria, these days Damascus has become a hangout place for states that have not achieved much in the past few years of war against Syria.

Iranian military chief downplays U.S. pullout from Syria

TEHRAN - Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces said on Sunday that withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria is not a big issue while there are still many U.S. forces in the region.

Christmas 2018: Iran and Syria show respect, Israel and Saudi Arabia don't

Christmas is a time of goodwill to all men. Or at least it should be. But while the West’s Middle East ‘bad guys’ Iran and Syria, showed the Yuletide spirit, its closest allies, Saudi Arabia and Israel, failed to do so.

By Mohammad Fatemizadeh

Pentagon and CIA are against Trump / Reasons of U.S. withdrawal from Syria:  Anzour

After Donald Trump said he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria, the Turkish military operation against Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria has been postponed. Currently, the main cast in Syria is assessing the position of their forces to continue fighting the remaining ISIS presence after the departure of the U.S.

Trump couldn’t overcome Iran, Russia aid to Syria: ex-U.S. diplomat

TEHRAN – An American author and former diplomat has highlighted reasons behind President Donald Trump’s recent decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria, saying Trump “could see no way of overcoming Iranian and Russian aid” to the Damascus government.

By Payman Yazdani

Further cooperation among Iran, Russia and Turkey necessary in Syria: Logoglu

TEHRAN - A senior member of Turkey’s CHP says further cooperation among Iran, Russia and Turkey is necessary after the U.S. withdrawal from Syria.

Pentagon mulls allowing Kurdish militias to keep weapons after U.S. withdrawal from Syria

The Pentagon is considering allowing Kurdish fighters to keep their US-supplied weapons after American forces withdraw from northern Syria, breaking a promise it had made to Turkey, a media report reveals.

Bahrain reopens embassy in Syrian capital after UAE move

Bahrain's embassy in Damascus and the Syrian diplomatic mission in Manama have been operating “without interruption”, the Bahraini foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday, a day after the United Arab Emirates reopened its embassy in Syria.

Ex-diplomat calls U.S. military presence in Syria a failure

TEHRAN - Hossein Sheikholeslam, a former Iranian ambassador to Damascus, has said the U.S. military presence in Syria was a failure and called Washington’s move in removing forces from Syria a “wise” act.

Iran welcomes Syrian army’s entrance to Manbij

TEHRAN – Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Friday welcomed the Syrian army’s entry into the key northern city of Manbij for the first time in six years, saying it is “a new step” in efforts to resolve the crisis in the war-torn country, Tasnim reported.

UAE officially reopens embassy in Syria

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has officially reopened its embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Thursday, the Syrian Information Ministry has announced.

Syria air defences 'confront Israeli missiles' near Damascus

Syrian state media says government air defences have intercepted missiles fired by Israeli fighter jets near the capital, Damascus.

Trump: Saudi Arabia, not U.S., will pay to rebuild Syria

U.S. President Donald Trump has said that Saudi Arabia, not the United States, will provide funds to help rebuild Syria, destroyed, in fact, mostly by American and Saudi sponsored terrorists.