The Iranian foreign ministry voiced regret over the UN’s withdrawal from its earlier position on Tehran's presence in the International Geneva II conference on Syria, reminding that Iran has never requested participation in the international gathering.
Iran's absence from the second international conference on peace settlement in Syria, which is due to be held January 22 in Switzerland, will deprive its participants of an important factor of support, much needed for settling the conflict.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, called the tribunal prosecuting suspects in former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri's assassination "politicised," saying it aims to pressure Lebanon's Hezbollah movement.
Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and Africa Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian announced that the Islamic Republic of Ira has been invited to the Geneva II conference on Syria, IRNA reported..
The foreign minister of Iran, a key ally of the Syrian regime, arrived in Damascus on Wednesday to meet President Bashar al-Assad, a diplomatic source said.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem will visit Russia ahead of the Geneva 2 peace talks on the crisis due to begin in Switzerland later this month, Damascus's ambassador to Moscow said Monday.
US top diplomat John Kerry headed Saturday for Paris to hold talks about the Syrian war, hoping to press the fractured opposition to participate in upcoming peace talks.
Jihadists battling rebels in northern Syria fought Thursday to recover lost turf nearly a week after a new front opened in the deadly conflict gripping the country, a watchdog said.
Members of the U.N. Security Council failed to coordinate a draft statement on the
situation in Syria for the second time this month, a diplomatic source told Itar-Tass.
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazzayeri warned the US, Europe and the Arab regional states of the consequences of financing terrorists in Syria, and said the terrorist groups will eventually harm their interests as well.
Former British Foreign Secretary and a present member of the UK Parliament Jack Straw said he supported Tehran’s rights under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, facing a rebel backlash in Syria and challenging the government in Iraq, has vowed to continue the fight on two fronts.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — On his eighth trip to fight with the rebels in Syria, in August, Abu Khattab saw something that troubled him: two dead children, their blood-soaked bodies sprawled on the street of a rural village near the Mediterranean coast. He knew right away that his fellow rebels had killed them.
Iranian FM. Mohammad Javad Zarif once again renewed Iran’s support for a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis, but underlined that Tehran will not accept any precondition for its participation in the upcoming Geneva II Conference on Syria.
A UN-hosted peace conference on Syria must work to remove President Bashar al-Assad from power because of his culpability for tens of thousands of deaths, Turkey's Prime Minster said in Tokyo on Tuesday.