US Forces Steals 30 Tanks Loaded with Syrian Oil

19 September، 2020 Hasaka, SANA The US occupation continues looting the Syrian oil from the Syrian Al-Jazeera area, sending a convoy consisting of dozens of tanks loaded with oil from the Syrian lands towards Iraq through the illegal al-Walid crossing. Local sources told SANA reporter that a US occupation ‘s convoy consisting of 30 tanks…

Statement by Vassily Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of Russia to the UNSC Meeting on the Situation in Syria

Mr. President, We thank Special Envoy of the Secretary-General Mr. G.Pedersen for his briefing. We welcome the third round of the Small Body of the Syrian Constitutional Committee held in Geneva last month. The most important achievement of this meeting was the constructive approach by the Syrian delegations. The credit for this belongs to the…

New Documents Reveal Secret British Efforts to Arm, Assist and Propagandize ‘Moderate Rebels’ in Syria

Moon of Alabama In November 2018 some anonymous people published a number of documents that had been liberated from a clandestine British propaganda organization, the Integrity Initiative. The same group or person who revealed the Integrity Initiative papers has now released several dozens of documents about another ‘Strategic Communication’ campaign run by the British Foreign…

Staff and Students Protest QSD Militia Takeover of Schools in Hasaka

17 September، 2020 Hasaka, SANA Schools administrational cadres, teachers and students on Thursday staged a sit-in in front of Hasakah Education Directorate in protest against the US occupation-backed QSD militia practices, takeover of schools and preventing thousands of students from education. With the start of the new academic year last Sunday, the US occupation-backed QSD…

US Sneaks Another Convoy Containing Dozens of Vehicles Into Syria Via Iraq

Ilya TsukanovUS forces have brought in a convoy consisting of 58 vehicles into Syria’s al-Hasakah province from Iraq through the al-Waleed border crossing point, SANA has reported, citing civilian sources in the nearby al-Yaroubiya countryside. The vehicles reportedly included armoured military vehicles, trucks carrying cement plates, and other equipment, with the convoy making its way…

Russian Foreign Ministry: Turkey Procrastinates Carrying Out its Commitments in Idleb

17 September، 2020 Moscow, SANA Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that the Turkish regime postpones fulfilling its commitments to the agreement of cessation of hostilities in Idleb province, adding that US-backed QSD militia has been practicing dangerous tricks along with the Americans in stealing the oil resources in Syrian Al-Jazeera. “Ankara’s fulfillment of its obligations stipulated…

US Administration Like a ‘Terrorist Group’, Syria Says Over Trump’s Comments on Assad Elimination

Aleksandra Serebriakova United States President Donald Trump told the US media on Tuesday that he once had an opportunity to “take out” his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad but then Defence Secretary James Mattis opposed the move. His comments were not greeted in the Syrian capital Damascus. Syria’s foreign ministry has said the US administration is…

QSD Militias Continue Their Crimes Against Families, Target Education Sector

15 September، 2020 Damascus, SANA Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said on Tuesday that US occupation-backed QSD militias continue their crimes against families of the regions where they are positioned, targeting education sector to spread illiteracy through intimidating and depriving children and adolescents from their basic requirements. “QSD terrorist violations have taken systematized feature since 2013…

Alleged Israeli Airstrike Near Aleppo Reportedly Damaged Syrian Missile Production Facility

Tim Korso The attack was blamed on Israel by Syrian state media, but the IDF has refused to comment on the accusation. Tel Aviv is suspected of having carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Syria over the last decade, but it has officially confirmed conducting only a handful of them. The airstrike, which took place…

Russian Defense Ministry: Jabhat al-Nusra Prepare for Provocations with Chemical Weapons in Idleb

12 September، 2020 Moscow, SANA The Russian Ministry of Defense revealed preparations by terrorists of Jabhat al-Nusra to carry out provocations using chemical weapons in the southern countryside of Idleb to accuse the Syrian Arab Army of the act. Head of the Russian Coordination Center, General Alexander Greenkiewicz, said in a statement that the Russian…

Statement by Vassily Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, on “The Situation in the Middle East”

Mr. President, We would like to thank Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu for presenting the eighty-third monthly report of the OPCW Director-General (S/2020/871) on the implementation of the Security Council resolution 2118. The Syrian chemical dossier has been on the agenda of the UN Security Council for 7 years. We discussed it mostly in closed format. But…

Al-Jaafari: Syria Has Fulfilled its Commitments, Joining the Chemical Weapons Convention

11 September، 2020 New York, SANA Dr. Al-Jaafari’s Statement at the UNSC Security Council Session on the Situation in the Middle East Syria’s permanent representative to the UN, Dr. Bashar Al-Jaafari reaffirmed the falseness of allegations circulated by some western governments regarding the chemical file in Syria, stressing that Syria has met its commitments of…