Deputy Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations Zahra Ershadi has criticized the UN Security Council for repeating baseless accusations against Syria regarding the chemical weapons. Speaking during the meeting of the Security Council on Wednesday on Syria, Deputy Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations Zahra Ershadi ...

Russia says it has evidence that proves the foreign-backed Syrian opposition regularly seeks to provoke foreign countries to attack Syria. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, We have plenty of reports on chemical weapons use, which indicate that the opposition regularly resorts to provocations in order to trigger strikes and ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says Damascuss decision to destroy its chemical weapons arsenal was the result of Russias proposal and had nothing to do with the US threat of war. "There's a misunderstanding that we agreed with this agreement because of the Americans," AFP quoted Assad as saying during an interview with Fox News broadcast on Wednesday....

If the United States falls into Israels trap and starts a war against Syria, the conflict is likely to last for more than a decade, a US political commentator says. If the Obama administration does engage in a war against Syria, and I believe that is Israels policy, that war will last more than a decade, Gordon Duff, a senior editor at Veterans Today,...

Russia has criticized a UN report for ignoring the evidence provided by the Syrian government about last months poison gas attack in the suburbs of Damascus. Speaking in Damascus on Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the documents regarding the militants use of chemical weapons on August 21 were very factual and not political. Evidence ...

The Syrian government has given assurances that it will submit a comprehensive list of its chemical weapons stockpile within one week, in line with a US-Russia deal, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry official says. "We have received assurances here that this will be done on time," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday after talks ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that US interventionist policy is not in the interest of American people, thanking Russia for helping Syria face 'savage attack'. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has criticized US foreign policy in the Middle East, saying that Washington's Mideast policy is not in line with the interests of the American people....

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian legislator said the UN inspectors' report confirming the use of chemical weapons in Syria indicated that the rebels had conducted the August 21 attack on Ghouta in Damascus countryside. "The report shows that the Syrian government has not used chemical weapons," member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign ...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has expressed disappointment about the politicized and biased findings of UN inspectors on the use of chemical weapons in Syria. "We were disappointed, to say the least, with the approach adopted by the UN and the UN inspectors, who were in Syria, which was very selective and incomplete, without regard ...

[caption id="attachment_46979" align="alignright" width="210"] Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari[/caption] Syria's Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari has warned against prejudgments on a UN report about the August 21 chemical weapons attack in Syria. The irony is that we now face false accusations ... based ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A report by United Nations inspectors probing a chemical weapons attack in Syria will "probably" be published on Monday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Thursday. "It will say that there was a chemical massacre," Fabius told French radio. The inspectors left Syria on August 31 after collecting samples as part of their ...