TEHRAN, Jan 13 - The head of a foreign-backed Syrian opposition group says he is ready to visit Damascus for talks with the government after reports that the US has started its withdrawal from the country.
TEHRAN, December 17 -Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir arrived in Syria’s capital of Damascus on Sunday in the first such visit by an Arab leader since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011.
TEHRAN, July 27 - An alliance of Kurdish and Arab militants in Syria has sent a delegation to the Syrian capital for talks with Syrian government officials.
TEHRAN, July 19 - Russia’s ambassador to Tehran says Iran’s military advisory role in Syria is “legitimate” as it comes at the request of the legal administration in Damascus, praising joint Iran-Russia efforts to eliminate terrorism from the Arab state and find a political solution to the conflict there.
TEHRAN, May 21 - The Syrian army has declared Damascus and its surrounds fully secure after regaining control of a former Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) stronghold in the southern part of the city.
TEHRAN, May 6 - Syrian forces and their allies continued to make gains in their fight against Takfiri militants, managing to retake a key town in southern edges of Damascus neighborhood.
TEHRAN, April 21 - Syrian government forces have launched separate operations against positions of foreign-sponsored Takfiri militant groups in the country’s southwestern province of Rif Dimashq, inflicting heavy losses on their ranks.
TEHRAN, April 19 - The Syrian army has reportedly given a 48-hours ultimatum to Takfiri Daesh and al-Nusra Front terrorist groups to agree to withdraw from areas south of the capital, Damascus, or face a major counter-terrorism operation in the area.
TEHRAN, April 17 -Syrian air defenses have shoot down missile attacks on the Shayrat airbase in the central province of Homs and the Dumair military airport in Damascus.
TEHRAN, April 14 -Syrian air defenses have shot down approximately one third of the missiles fired at the capital, Damascus, by the US, the UK and France in a joint act of aggression, with Damascus saying the attacks are “doomed to fail.”
TEHRAN, March 18 - Eighteen civilians were injured as terrorist organizations, positioned in eastern Ghouta, targeted the residential neighborhoods in Damascus and its countryside with rocket shells.
TEHRAN, March 16 -Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says any threat from the United States to strike the Syrian capital, Damascus, is “unacceptable.”
TEHRAN, March 14 -Rocket units of the Syrian Army have commenced a powerful bombardment of ISIL's positions, bases and gathering points in Southern Damascus.
TEHRAN, February 7 - Syrian air defence systems intercepted an Israeli air attack on a military position near the capital Damascus on Wednesday, the army said.
TEHRAN, December 16 -Syria has lambasted United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura and the French Foreign Ministry for accusing the Arab country of being responsible for a lack of progress in the latest round of the Geneva peace negotiations.
TEHRAN, November 3 - A senior US security official has recently traveled to Damascus via Lebanese soil and held talks with Syrian officials, a Lebanese daily reported on Friday.
TEHRAN, October 30 -The US-led coalition has cruelly destroyed civilian infrastructure and has occupied the city of Raqqa it captured from ISIS, Syria’s Foreign Ministry has said, accusing the “illegitimate alliance” of misleading the international community about its true intentions.