Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad says the US push to renew a cross-border aid operation into Idlib is aimed at supplying terrorist groups with arms.

Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad says the Western states’ criticism about the presidential election in the Arab country shows they are detached from reality.

A senior Russian diplomat says certain Western countries are drawing up a mechanism in order to discredit unfavorable states at the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

The Syrian foreign minister says the United States and its allies have turned the OPCW into a tool to advance their hostile agenda against his country.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says it concurs with Russia on the need to complete the liberation of Syria from terrorist groups and the country’s reconstruction.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh exchanges views with Syria’s foreign and information ministers on developing relations between the two countries in different sectors.

The Syrian FM says the US is using Takfiri terrorist groups in order to find a justification for its military deployment to northeastern Syria.

Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has denounced unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States against the war-stricken country as "crimes against humanity”.

High-ranking Iranian officials have in separate meetings with visiting Syrian foreign minister highlighted the destabilizing role of Israel in the region and insisted that without the Zionist regime, the world will be a safer place.

Faisal Mekdad holds a doctorate in English literature from Charles University in Prague.