ISLAMABAD - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the Damascus government will respond through all legitimate means available to the ongoing ground offensive by Turkish soldiers and allied Takfiri militants against Kurdish forces in the northern part of the war-battered Arab country. During a ...

DAMASCUS - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has condemned Turkish military operation in the country’s northwestern region of Afrin, stating that the offensive is part of Ankara's support for terrorist groups operating inside the conflict-plagued Arab country. “The brutal Turkish aggression on ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan: (APP) Syrian rebels are set to meet their war-torn country's government on Monday in the Kazakh capital Astana, in the latest push to end the conflict.It will be the first time a delegation composed exclusively of rebel groups will negotiate with President Bashar al-Assad's ...

Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov has said that Kazakhstan is fully ready to hold talks on Syria in its capital Astana on 23th of this month.Russia the most powerful ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's, pushed for peace talks in Astana after Assad's forces won a major victory in ...

TEHRAN: (APP) More than 1,000 combatants sent from Iran to fight in support of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria have been killed in the conflict, the head of Iran's veterans' affairs office said Tuesday."The number of martyrs from our country defending the shrines has now passed 1,000," Tasnim ...

GENEVA (APP) - The United States and Russia reached a deal on a new Syrian ceasefire, which, if it holds, could see the first joint military effort by the two powers against militants.US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the truce, reached late on ...

DAMASCUS: (APP) A string of bomb attacks hit across mostly government-controlled areas of Syria Monday, killing several dozen people including at least 35 in President Bashar al-Assad's coastal stronghold of Tartus, state media said.At least 48 people died in the multiple blasts, with dozens also ...

HASAKEH, Syria (APP) - Syrian regime jets pounded US-backed Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria for a second day Friday, even after the US-led coalition scrambled jets to protect its military advisers working on the ground.In another escalation of Syria's bloody conflict, warplanes from President ...

WASHINGTON: (APP) Russian Military strength in Syria is still intact: US Official Russia's military strength in Syria has barely changed since President Vladimir Putin announced a partial withdrawal from the war-torn country in March, the Pentagon said Wednesday. "Their capabilities are largely ...

MOSCOW: (APP) Russia urges UNSC to Blacklist key Syrian Rebels Groups as terrorists. Russia has asked the United Nations to blacklist a major Syrian rebel group that is playing a key role in talks to end the conflict, its ambassador to the UN said. Mohammed Alloush, a leading figure in Jaish ...