Bagheri Kani was in Syria on the second leg of his regional tour after visiting Lebanon.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad receives the first ambassador to be sent by the United Arab Emirates to Damascus in 13 years.

Syria has appointed Ayman Soussan, the country’s deputy foreign minister, as its new ambassador to Saudi Arabia, following the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries after more than a decade.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the West is seeking to distort the facts on the ground in the Gaza Strip and legitimatize Israeli crimes in the besieged coastal enclave.

President Assad says the US is in a close partnership with foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists operating in the northeastern part of Syria.

China’s President Xi Jinping and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad have met in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, unveiling a strategic cooperation agreement between the two nations.

President Ebrahim Raeisi has said that his historic early May visit to Syria served to send the message of victory for the regional resistance front.

Vellamvelly Muraleedharan met with President Bashar al-Assad and other senior Syrian officials.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the recent rapprochement between Damascus and the Arab world will have “a positive impact” on neighboring Lebanon.

A senior Hezbollah official says the Arab League summit in the Saudi city of Jeddah would have been pointless without the participation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.