Iranian and Syrian officials have discussed potential cooperation in the oil and gas sector, Syria’s official news agency SANA reports.

Following his reconciliation offer to Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to soften the climate with Damascus on the one side while insisting on his plan for a safe zone along the border on the other.

The Russian side, in his words, will continue its efforts to promote the Constitutional Committee’s work so that “the Syrians could reach consent on the constitutional reform without foreign interference.”

About six weeks ago, Moufida Rahmon started seeing her neighborhood with different eyes.

The stepped-up targeting of bases in eastern Syria by Iran-linked militias consisting mainly of Iraqi nationals has raised alarms once again about the country’s borders.

Three servicemen of the Syrian Arab Republic have sustained serious wounds intercepting terrorists’ attempt to break through onto the territory controlled by the government’s forces from the At-Tanf zone controlled by the US-led coalition, Oleg Yegorov, deputy chief of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Opposing Parties in Syria, told reporters on Thursday.

American military aircraft struck Iran-backed militia targets in eastern Syria for the third day in a row on Thursday as commanders sought to suppress a new flurry of attacks on US bases in the country.

Russia hasn’t lost interest in the Syrian settlement in the context of the special military operation in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a meeting with UN Secretary-Genera’s Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen.

…There was no official comment from Syria on the attacks….

The US-led entities export up to 66,000 barrels of oil from Syria daily.