While Iran and the US are stealing the spotlight with talks set to continue on Saturday, this week belonged to Syria. Over the past seven days, rivals and allies alike – including leaders and ...

The remarks were made during a Sunday meeting in Riyadh between Mohammad-Reza Raouf Sheibani, Iran’s special envoy for Syria, and Saud al-Sati, Saudi Arabia’s deputy foreign minister for political ...

These routes are the last vestiges of the “land bridge” — a network traversing the breadth of Syria — used by Iran and its allied militias to ferry weapons, cash, drugs and fuel.

Mapna entered Syria in 2008, three years before the outbreak of war, and said that the projects executed by the group were responsible for more than 50% of Syria’s electricity supply. R1517/P ...