Iranian Diplomacy | Mohammad Ghaderi: On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif traveled to Moscow for a one-day visit to meet with foreign ministers of Turkey and Russia on the current situation in Syria. Zarif arrived in Moscow at 10 am local time.Zarifs work program began at 10:30 in the Russian Foreign Ministry's villa. He attended ...

Sputnik- Last week, the fact-finding mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) visited a site in the Damascus suburb of Douma to collect samples in connection with the alleged April 7 chemical attack. Chief ofthe Main Operational Directorate ofthe Russian General Staff Col. Gen. Sergey Rudskoy has announced ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday, April 18, and picked headlines from 23 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The recent fluctuations in Irans foreign exchange market and the governments policy to control the crisis remained a top story ...

Sputnik - Russian troops found a warehouse of substances necessary for the production of chemical weapons in Syrian Douma, media reported Tuesday, citing chemical defense specialist Alexander Rodionov. "The discovered substances, such as thiodiglycol and diethanolamine, are necessary for the production of sulfur and nitrogen mustard gas. In addition,...

Press TV - Early on Saturday, the US, Britain and France launched a series of missile attacks against Syria in response to what they claimed was a chemical attack by the Syrian government in the town of Douma in the suburb of Damascus on April 7. Here is a roundup of international reactions to the recent joint airstrikes. Following the attacks ...

Press TV- Russia says the Syrian army has liberatedDouma, the last Eastern Ghouta town under militant control, less than two months into its counter-terrorism operation in the suburban area near the capital, Damascus. The raised state flag over a building in the town of Douma has heralded the control over this location and therefore over the whole ...

RT - The Russian military has found no trace of chemical weapons use after searching parts of Syrias Douma allegedly targeted by an attack. Photos of victims posted by the White Helmets are fake, Russias Defense Ministry said. Experts in radiological, chemical and biological warfare, as well as medics, on Monday inspected the parts of the Eastern ...

Press TV - An initial assessment by the United States has not determined whether a reported chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma was carried out by Syrian government forces, Reuters reports. The assessment also suggested that a nerve agent was used in the suspected poison attack, but further evidence was needed to determine the type of agent,...

MNA Senator Ben Cardin, a Democrat from the state of Maryland, has called on additional sanctions against Russia and Iran in connection with accusations of an alleged chemical attack on the town of Douma in Syria's Eastern Ghouta. Cardin, who serves onthe US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told CBS's Face the Nation weekly news show onSunday ...

IRNA The European Union spokesperson in a statement on alleged gas attacks in Douma, Syria, called on Iran and Russia to use their influence to prevent further attacks in the country. Maya Kasyanchich said that a large number of unarmed people have reportedly been killed during gas attack in Douma Saturdays evening. The statement added that the ...

Press TV - The Syrian government has denied terrorist claims pertaining to it launching a chemical attack in the city of Douma in Eastern Ghouta. In a statement released via Syria's officialSANA newsagency late on Saturday, the Syrian government stressed that such claims were aimed at halting Syrian forces' advances in the region and were made ...

Press TV- The Syrian army is making advances against militants in the town of Douma, their last stronghold in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta. State media reported on Saturday that the soldiers pushed deeper into Douma from western and southern fronts during their ground offensive. Syrian forces have liberated around 95 percent of Eastern ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian army made major advances in Douma, a city about 10 km Northeast of Damascus, and regained control over significant parts of the region. Foreign-backed militants suffered heavy losses, as the Syrian Army made major advances against the armed groups in the Damascus suburb of Douma. A military source said that the army ...

[caption id="attachment_48975" align="alignright" width="210"] Several militants operating in Syria[/caption] A report says the foreign-backed militants operating inside Syria have been making chemical weapons in the suburbs of the Syrian capital, Damascus. The weapons, which are made by an individual named Hani Nour Eldin Aqeel in a workshop in ...