Syria

A Lebanese newspaper disclosed that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is slated to visit the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad in the next two months, adding that the two neighboring countries are eager to expand bilateral relations. Al-Akhbar, a Lebanese daily, issued a report on Wednesday touching upon the visits of the leaders of the countries of the region to Baghdad.…

“The dead bodies of at least 21 civilians, including children and women, massacred by the ISIL were retrieved from Fakhikheh mass grave South of Raqqa City,” media activists said. They also said that the Syrian Army troops also discovered the corpses of seven Syrian citizens, including children, who had been killed in the US airstrikes on Raqqa from the districts…

  Baqeri stressed during the visit, which took place on Monday, that the Front of Resistance is firmly standing against US and the Zionist entity, vowing that all the Syrian territory will be liberated from the Takfiri terrorists.

    The Syrian leader made the comments in a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in the capital Damascus on Tuesday. Assad said some countries have confined the fight against terrorism to issuing official statements while “in reality” they “support terrorism and work with it” and further offer “protection” to terrorists in a number of areas. According to a report…

A military source in Damascus told Al-Masdar News that the Syrian Republican Guard was preparing to deploy to the Daraa Governorate for a new operation against the Free Syrian Army’s (FSA) sleeper cells. The Syrian Republican Guard, along with the Air Force Intelligence, arrived in Daraa city on Tuesday after receiving the green light to launch a large-scale operation against…

Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, who arrived in Syria yesterday to take part in a trilateral meeting of senior commanders of Iran, Iraq and Syria on combating terrorism, paid a visit to the front line in Deir ez-Zor province in eastern Syria on Monday. According to the report, Iran military chief of staff visited and talked with the Resistance forces…

Turkey has recently attempted to set up new crossing between Afrin region and Lawa Eskandaroun known as Olive Branch Crossing, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported. The report said hundreds of trees have been cut off in Afrin to set up the crossing that is believed to be mainly aimed at sending commodities to Turkey from Syria.…

The Syrian Army units engaged in heavy clashes with Tahrir al-Sham terrorists on their military positions from Wadi al-Dorat and the surrounding areas of Lahaya and al-Latamanieh in Northern Hama, inflicting heavy losses and casualties on the militants. In Southern Idlib, the Syrian Army troops also inflicted heavy losses on the terrorists after foiling their attack from Safvohen on the…

The Syrian Army’s missile and artillery units pounded the movements of Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay’at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) and their allies in Tal Osman, Mourek and al-Janabareh in Northern Hama as well as al-Sahrieh, al-Hawija, al-Sharia’a and al-Sarmanieh in Western Hama, inflicting heavy losses on the terrorists. In Southern Idlib, the Syrian Army troops also engaged…

  “The relation, which gathers Syria with Iran and Iraq, is strong,” Assad said in the capital Damascus on Monday, the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported. He made the remarks during a meeting with the visiting Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Bagheri and the latter’s Iraqi counterpart Lieutenant General Othman al-Ghanimi.…