Syrian military operations and Russian airstrikes have claimed the lives of some 2,000 terrorists from Daesh and al-Nusra Front now renamed Fateh al-Sham Front and their allied groups in Syrias northern city of Aleppo, Russian media say. The heavy casualties have been caused in the main stage of the liberation operation for Aleppo, which began ...

DAMASCUS (Tasnim) Russian fighter jets have intensified attacks on the strongholds of terrorist groups near the Syrian cities of Idlib and Aleppo over the past hours. According to Tasnim dispatches, the Russian warplanes have hit 80 targets in northern outskirts of Idlib and southern suburbs of Aleppo over the past few hours. Reports suggest ...

Daesh has been dealt a major blow in Syria by Tupolev Tu-22M3 long-range strategic bombers launched from an airbase located in Russians southern regions. According to Russias Defense Ministry, six bombers took off from Russia early on Tuesday morning and carried out airstrikes against a major Takfiri base and several ammunition depots located to ...

The Russian Air Force and the Syrian army have wiped out over a third of Daesh terrorists since Moscow began its operations in Syria in September, says a high ranking security official. We estimate that at the beginning of our operation, al-Nusra Front and Daesh possessed about 80,000 fighters, of whom 28,000 (35 percent) have already been eliminated....

TEHRAN (FNA)- At least 170 ISIL terrorists were killed and many more were wounded in the joint offensives of the Syrian Army troops and the Russian Air Force in an oil-rich region in the Eastern part of Homs province. The Syrian-Russian coordinated heavy attacks on the ISIL positions near al-Hail oilfield ended in the killing of at least 170 militants,...

The Daesh jihadist groups income fell by nearly a third since mid-2015 as the group has been losing its territory and suffering damages to its infrastructure amid US-led coalition airstrikes and a Russian aerial campaign against Daesh in Syria, a report revealed. MOSCOW (Sputnik) According tothe report bythe IHS, the analytical firm which issues ...

As Turkeycontinues to aid al-NusraFront, some 10,000militants of the Takfiri terrorist group have converged around Syrias northwestern province of Aleppo, says Russia'sGeneral Staff. Despite progress achieved in securing a ceasefire, Turkey continues to funnel men and arms to al-Nusra Front,said Lieutenant GeneralSergey Rudskoy, the head of the ...

Residents of the Syrian Christian town Sadad in the province of Homs began returning from Europe after stabilization of the situation in their country due to the actions of the Russian air force according to the head of the city of Sadad, Suleiman Al-Khalil. Christians, who left Syria forEurope, began toreturn toSadad, aswell asto other cities. People ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Syria and Russia have agreed to reduce the presence of Russia's air force in Syria after it helped the Syrian army make military gains, the Syrian presidency said in a statement on Monday. It said President Bashar al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed the move in a telephone call, saying it was in line with "the ...

Syrian planes, assisted by the Russian army, have airdropped humanitarian aid for people besieged by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the Arab countrys east. The Syrian aircraft dropped food cargo over the city of Dayr al-Zawr on Monday, using Russian parachute platform airdrop systems. Some 200,000 people living in Dayr al-Zawr have ...

Tehran, February 10, The Iran Project The Geneva III Peace Talks which was due to hold negotiations in order to bring an end to five-year- long crisis in Syria was delayed because of suspension of the talks by dissidents residing in Riyadh. Indeed, prior to breaking the several-year-long siege of Syria's Nabl and al-Zahra towns in Aleppo province ...

Tehran, November 25, The Iran Project Putin's first visit to Tehran after eight years within the framework of the third summit of Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in Tehran has extensively generated comments and speculations. As many commentators have argued, the Russian leader one-day trip opens a new chapter of partnership between Iran and Russia ...

Tehran, January 12, The Iran Project 2016 already began while Iran's neighboring countries have been spending last year confronting numerous challenges which have extended to the New Year, as well. In what follows, a brief description of the expected developments will be presented. Syria: Political reconciliation and government's consolidation of ...

The United States has leveled new charges against Russia over its military operations in Syria, accusing Moscow of having killed hundreds of Syrian civilians since late September. US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said on Tuesday, "Russian airstrikes in Syria have killed hundreds of civilians, including first responders, (and) hit medical ...

Tehran, Dec 25, IRNA -- The Russian airstrikes targeted the command center of Jeish al-Islam (Army of Islam) terrorist group in Eastern Ghouta in Damascus countryside on Friday, killing ten of militants, including the terrorist group's deputy top commander. Zahran Allouch, deputy commander and spokesman of Jeish al-Islam, was killed when the Russian ...

Tehran, Dec 16, IRNA A Syrian army source said on Wednesday that 320 terrorists were killed and 109 oil tankers for ISIS were destroyed in the past 24 hours. The source said in a statement to SANA that Russian Air Force in cooperation with Syrian Air Force carried out 59 sorties against 212 terrorist targets in Aleppo, Idleb, Lattakia, Hama, Homs,...

BEIRUT (AP) -- Weeks of Russian airstrikes in Syria appear to have restored enough momentum to the government side to convince President Bashar Assad's foes and the world community that even if he doesn't win the war he cannot quickly be removed by force. That realization, combined with the growing sense that the world's No. 1 priority is the destruction ...

Russia calls on the US to stop playing "geopolitical games," and says Moscow does not understand the latest US sanctions against Russia over the situation in Syria. It is clear that this is a new, complicated moment in relations," said Sergei Ryabkov on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, the United States put sanctions on 10 targets, claiming they ...

Russian jet Su-24 has crashed on the Turkish-Syrian border, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "Su-24 ofthe Russian aviation group has crashed inthe Syrian Arab Republic afteralleged fire fromthe ground," the Russian Defense Ministry stated. According tothe preliminary reports, the plane was gunned downfrom the ground. The Su-24 bomber ...

The tide is turning in favor of the Syrian Army which began to push ISIL and other jihadist groups away from key areas in Syria, including the crucial Kweiris airbase in the Aleppo province, Dr. Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian political expert on American Studies from the University of Tehran, told Radio Sputnik. The Kweiris airbase was under ISIL ...