[caption id="attachment_72802" align="alignright" width="180"] A general view of the besieged area of Homs[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Syrias main opposition group threatened on Monday to withdraw from the Geneva 2 peace conference after UN secretary Ban Ki-moon invited Iran to attend the negotiations, which are due to start on Wednesday in the Swiss ...

Britain and the United States have warned Syrias foreign-backed opposition of stopping their support if they do not participate in the upcoming Geneva conference. A senior official from the so-called Syrian National Coalition (SNC) said on Monday that Washington and London were adamant that the SNC should attend the conference, which is scheduled ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The leader of the most powerful rebel group in Syria, Ahrar al-Sham, said that he would not recognize any agreement reached in the Geneva peace conference planned for January. Hassan Aboud, speaking to Al Jazeera from an undisclosed location inside Syria, said the group would "absolutely not" take part in the talks in Switzerland,...

TEHRAN, Nov. 12 (MNA) Syrias Western-backed opposition has laid out several conditions to participate in talks ending the deadly war in Syria. The deeply divided Syrian National Coalition reached a decision for attending the Geneva 2 conference after two days of discussions in Istanbul, Al-Alam reported. The so-called Syrian National Coalition released ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says numerous attempts have been made to distort the meaning of an initiative for the Geneva 2 conference aimed at finding a political solution to the ongoing crisis in Syria. There are too many games around this initiative. There are attempts if not to derail the process completely, then to distort the meaning,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Minister of State for National Reconciliation Affairs Ali Haidar said that the US is "seriously thinking about opening channels with Damascus" following his meeting with UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi in Damascus on Tuesday. Haidar, however, added that "it is too early to talk about that, especially since the US has not ceased ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Parties which advocate political solution to the Syrian crisis and not the terrorist groups - should participate in the upcoming Geneva II talks, a prominent Syrian political elite said, and stressed that the Syrian people should decide their countrys future. Who wants to keep weapons, it means that he doesnt need any political ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Threats by powerful rebel groups in Syria against Russia and other states favoring political settlement of Syrian conflict are outrageous, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday. "It is outrageous that some of these extremist, terrorist organizations fighting government forces in Syria are starting to make threats....

TEHRAN (FNA)- A Syrian opposition figure hailed Tehran's efforts to settle the Syrian crisis peacefully, and stressed the necessity for Iran's participation in the Geneva II conference on the crisis in Syria. "We support Iran's presence in the Geneva II conference since we believe that exclusion of Iran is a desire of those who want to bring the ...

[caption id="attachment_29783" align="alignright" width="180"] US Secretary of State John Kerry[/caption] TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is due to hold talks with Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid al-Attiyah on Monday, ahead of a meeting with other core members of the Friends of Syria and the Syrian opposition.The two men are ...

The refusal of the so-called Syria opposition to attend the forthcoming Geneva II conference shows they are incorrigible in their disdain for diplomacy, a political analyst tellsPress TV. The Syrian rebels are incorrigible. They simply will not negotiate and thats the most recent authoritative word we have from the Syrian National Council, Webster ...

Russia has sharply criticized the US for its inability to bring the Syria opposition to the Geneva 2 conference on the ongoing crisis in Syria. It is strange to hear repeated statements by some US State Department officials that we are moving towards Geneva 2, but its important that Russia puts pressure on Damascus. They are shifting the blame. We ...