24 February، 2021 Geneva, SANA Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Fayssal Mikdad, stressed that some countries try to exploit the forum of the Conference on Disarmament to liquidate their accounts against states that do not share their hostile stances and policies. Mikdad added that during the latest years,, those countries didn’t stop at impeding return of…
Al-Masna’a and Aboudyah Borders Open to Lebanese Citizens Who Want to Return from Syria
23 February، 2021 Beirut, SANA General Directorate of the Lebanese Security announced that it decided to open two border points al-Masna’a and Aboudyah on Wednesday in front of the Lebanese people who wish to return from Syria, provided that they have a negative PCR test. The statement by Lebanese General security said that the return…
Marketa Kutilova Condemns International Community Silence Over Turkish Crimes in Libya and Syria
22 February، 2021 Prague, SANA Marketa Kutilova, Czech journalist specialized in the Middle Eastern, affairs said that the international Community’s silence regarding Turkish regime’s aggressive practices in Syria, Libya and other countries encourages it to go far in this criminal behavior. In an article posted on her Facebook page, Kutilova criticized the EU and NATO…
Mikdad: Human Rights Council Should Place Grave Violations, Resulting from Coercive Measures, On Top of its Priorities
22 February، 2021 Geveva, SANA Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Faysal Mikdad, called on Human Rights Council to put grave violations, resulted by US and EU coercive unilateral measures against Syrian people, on the top of its priorities. Mikdad, in a speech via video to the 46th session of Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday,…
New Corridor Opened for Civilians Willing to Return to Liberated Areas in Idleb Countryside
21 February، 2021 Idleb, SANA Idleb Province , in coordination with units of Syrian Arab Army and Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), have completed preparations to open Trunbeh corridor in Saraqib area in Idleb eastern countryside tomorrow morning. The opening of the corridor aims to receive the locals willing to leave areas which are controlled…
NATO to Increase Troops in Iraq from 500 to 4,000 Amid US-Backed Daesh Resurgence
Morgan Artyukhina In January 2020, the Iraqi Parliament voted to demand that US forces leave the country. Instead, Washington threatened to freeze the country’s bank account at the US Federal Reserve, where billions of dollars in oil wealth are stored. The head of the North Atlantic alliance announced on Thursday that the number of troops…
Militants Are Preparing Provocations With Poisonous Substances in Idlib
Asya Geydarova Previously, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations pointed out that while almost every month Syria provides information about terrorists planning chemical weapons provocations, such data is not reflected in the OPCW documentation. Militants in Syria are planning to stage a chemical attack to blame the country’s authorities, Rear Adm. Vyacheslav Sytnik, the…
Outflanking NATO from the South: Russian Airbase in Syria Set to Host Strategic Nuclear Bombers
*Military Watch Russian Su-30SM Heavy Fighter at Khmeimim Airbase In the weeks leading up to Russia’s military intervention in Syria in September 2015, the country’s armed forces invested in extensively refurbishing the country’s Khmeimim Airport near its western coast on the Mediterranean Sea to serve as a major military base. This would come to be…
Sousan: Turkey is Boosting its Military Presence in Syria
Sputnik-Middle East SOCHI, Russia (Sputnik) – Syria’s Assistant Foreign Minister Ayman Sousan on Wednesday at the Astana-format talks in Russia’s Sochi accused Ankara of strengthening its military presence in the country. “The Turkish regime has been concealing and strengthening its military presence in Syria as a military power. These steps betray Turkey’s hostile intentions regarding…
Lavrentiev Stresses the Need for Combating Terrorist Organizations in Syria
17 February، 2021 Sochi, SANA Head of Russian delegation to 15th International Meeting within Astana format, Alexander Lavrentiev, stressed the necessity for combating all terrorist organizations in Syria, including “Tahrir al-Sham” until eliminating terrorism completely. “We should focus on fighting all the terrorist organizations, not only Daesh, Jabhat al-Nusra or so-called Tahrir al-Sham to which…
US Sends Advanced Night-Vision Systems to ISIL in Iraq
TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the Muslim Ulemas’ Association in Diyali Province Jaber al-Ma’amouri on Wednesday accused Washington of sending new cargoes of weapons to the ISIL terrorists in Iraq, including advanced night-vision systems for snipers. Al-Ma’amouri told the Arabic-language al-Ma’aloumeh news website that the ISIL terrorists have recently changed their method and their snipers target…
‘If You Attack Our Cities We’ll Attack Yours’, Hezbollah Warns Amid Massive Israeli Air Force Drills
Ilya Tsukanov The Israeli Air Force carried out 60 hours of exercises ending Tuesday. The drills involved some 85 percent of all Air Force personnel, and simulated attacks against more than 3,000 Hezbollah targets, as well as Lebanese civilian infrastructure, in response to a hypothetical Hezbollah attack on an IAF plane. Hezbollah is not interested…
