One year after the Syrian government and its allies took over southern Syria, there has been increased infiltration of the area by Iranian-supported militias along the border with Israel, an area of great geopolitical importance
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The regional threat of Iran explained
Entangled with nearly every Mideast country, Iran is a regional threat. The only Shiite-ruled country in the Sunni-dominant region, the theocratic regime has made clear its ambition to spread its Islamic revolution throughout the Arab world
Qassem Soleimani is responsible for death of 100000 Syrians
Firas Al-Assad, cousin of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, attacked his family on Facebook, accusing them of killing more than 100,000 Alawites and more than half a million Syrians in order to stay in power
Iran helping Hamas returns to Damascus
Iranian diplomat Amir Al-Moussawi said on Monday that the first practical steps have been taken towards a Hamas return to Damascus
Iran to establish at least 3 factories in Syria
Two of the factories are going to produce skimmed milk and medicine for cancer, and the third, will be a car manufacturing factory, Nahas told Al-Vatan newspaper
Iran preparing to build new production facilities in Syria
Iran is prepared to build several production facilities in Syria in the near future, Amin Nahhas, secretary of Syria-Iran joint economic committee, said
Iran to link Tehran to Damascus with reopening of eastern Syria crossing
Earlier this week, an Iraqi official revealed to the Sputnik News Agency that Baghdad is preparing to reopen the Al-Qa’im crossing with Syria
Iranian official in Syria said that Israel does not have a future in the region
Syrian President Bashar Assad met in Damascus with Hussein Amir Abdullahian, the special assistant to the speaker of Iran’s Shura Council for Political Affairs, the Italian news agency Ansa reported on Tuesday…
Assad and Iran seek plan to deal about the Israeli presence in Syria
Syrian President Bashar Assad met on Tuesday in Damascus with an unnamed senior Iranian official to discuss ways to cope with Israeli airstrikes in the war-torn country, reported regime-affiliated Syrian newspaper Al-Watan. According to the report, the Iranian official also discussed with Assad the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan, and presented Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s plan to contend with it…
Iranian militias on alert after East Syria deployment maps leaked
“Eye of the Euphrates” has published on its social media sites maps and detailed locations of 13 key Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) positions in the strategic Syrian city of al-Bukamal
Iranian supertankers took a much longer route to reach Syria
As the UK and Gibraltar, its “overseas territory” straddling the waters connecting the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, stopped a supertanker bound for Syria, one of the first questions asked is why the vessel carrying Iranian oil was found a world away from its origin and destination
