Syria

Syrian government forces, backed by allied fighters from popular defense groups, have made further progress in the southern countryside area of the country’s embattled northwestern province of Idlib, liberating more villages from the clutches of foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants. Syria’s official news agency SANA reported that Syrian soldiers and their allies …

DAMASCUS: The Syrian army has retaken control of two more towns in the northwestern Idlib province during the ongoing campaign against foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants in their last major stronghold. Syria’s official news agency SANA reported on Monday that army units had liberated the towns of Joubas and San as they …

DAMASCUS: Syrian air defense forces have managed to foil an attack by foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants against the country’s strategic Hmeimim air base in the western coastal province of Latakia. Syria’s state-run al-Ikhbariyah Syria television news network reported that an anti-aircraft defense system intercepted and brought down two unmanned aerial vehicles …

DAMASCUS: Nearly a dozen people have lost their lives when a powerful car bomb explosion ripped through a northern Syrian border town seized by Turkish military forces and their allied militants in the aftermath of a cross-border incursion against militants of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). The so-called Syrian …

The Syrian army says it has intercepted and shot down several Israeli drones and missiles targeting a major military airport in the country’s central province of Homs. Citing a military source, Syria’s official news agency SANA announced on Tuesday that the army air defenses had confronted an air aggression perpetrated …

TEHRAN: The Syrian Arab Republic has awarded Martyr Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani with its top military medal. The medal, accompanied by a statement signed by Syrian Preside Bashar Assad, was delivered to the Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami on Monday in a meeting that he had with his …

DAMASCUS: Syrian government forces have captured and dismantled an unmanned aerial vehicle launched by “terrorists” in the west-central province of Hama. Syria’s official news agency SANA said that that air defense units foiled an aerial aggression attempt on Wednesday evening after they detected and intercepted a hostile drone as it …

DAMASCUS: Syria has expressed its “absolute solidarity” with Iran in the Islamic Republic’s right to respond to US aggression in light of assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and the second-in-command of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), …

DAMASCUS: Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a surprise visit to Syria’s capital, Damascus, meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and observing “signs of peaceful life” in the city. The two leaders met at the command center of the Russian forces in the Arab country’s capital on Tuesday, just a …

DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has condoled Iran over the assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, saying that the late commander’s support for Syria will always be remembered by the Syrian nation. In a message to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Friday, Assad expressed his …