Syria Army Repels Militant Attack in Idlib

TEHRAN (defapress) – Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi voiced confidence Friday that Iran was seeking to lower tensions.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Syrian forces foiled a major attack by terrorists in the southeastern countryside of Idlib province, inflicting heavy losses on them.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Israeli warplanes pounded the besieged Gaza strip last night, shattering a fragile ceasefire brokered in November after the targeted assassination of a senior commander from the Palestinian resistance movement Islamic Jihad, Baha Abu al-Ata.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Syrian army forces responded with heavy fire after terrorists launched attacks against civilian neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Turkey’s Minister of Defense Hulusi Akar voiced concern about an atmosphere of tension in the region following the US assassination of Iranian commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani, calling for concerted action to preserve stability and calm.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Senior Iranian commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani, who was recently assassinated in a US strike, was posthumously awarded Syria’s top medal of honor by the Arab country’s President Bashar al-Assad.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran’s precision missile strikes at US military bases in Iraq sent the message that all American targets in West Asia are within the range of Iranian missiles, said the secretary-general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, adding that they were also a message to Israel.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Secretary General of al-Nujaba Movement Sheikh Akram al-Kaabi reassured the family of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani who was savagely assassinated by the terrorist army of the US at Baghdad International Airport that Resistance groups of the region will exact revenge on American perpetrators of the criminal act.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Representative of the Hezbollah group at the Lebanese parliament stressed that a new stage of confrontation against the US presence in the region has started after the US assassination of IRGC Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

TEHRAN(defapress) – Oman has named Haitham bin Tariq Al Said as the country's new ruler following the death of his cousin Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said, according to a report.