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The Douma Civil Defense team of volunteer search and rescue workers has now documented 95 of the dead by name, a further five that couldn’t be identified and 11 bodies still stuck in the rubble, the group’s local media liaison officer Majid Khalaf told VICE News on Monday.

“These abhorrent actions underscore that the Assad regime has lost legitimacy and that the global community must do more to enable a genuine political transition”, said the statement.

“If some of our partners believe that we should necessarily agree in advance that at the end of an interim period the president will leave his post – this position is not acceptable for Russian Federation”, Lavrov said.

Syrian opposition leaders and their foreign backers have insisted that President Bashar al-Assad should not have any role in a future government, something that the Assad government had rejected.

The last few weeks have seen intense diplomacy between Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Russian Federation, in what seems to be a concerted effort to break the logjam over the Syrian conflict.

The Observatory said the assault had hit a commercial center in Douma, by most accounts 15 km (10 miles) upper east of Damascus.

Zarif had last visited Pakistan in April this year, and discussed matters related to the Yemen crisis during his visit.

At least 40 people were killed and more than 120 others wounded in Syrian airstrikes against rebel-held areas east of the capital Damascus on Wednesday, a monitor group reported.

Investment in infrastructure, oil imports and ironing out troubles over the planned Chabahar port development project are on the agenda as Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif meets the government in Delhi on Friday. He said that Israeli propaganda over the course of the...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will arrive in India on Thursday on a 20-hour visit during which he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

A rare cease-fire negotiated with Hezbollah fighters in a Syrian town and two villages collapsed Saturday after several days during which guns fell silent, a rebel group involved in the talks and activists said.

“And it is in the interest of all of us”, the Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said while addressing a joint news conference along with the Advisor to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz in Islamabad on Thursday.

Foreign Offices of both countries also hold regular consultations on bilateral and regional issues.

The remarks were carried by Al-Manar, the television of the powerful Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, which is supported by Iran.

– Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem flew Thursday to Oman after a two-day visit to Tehran, amid unconfirmed reports in pro-Assad media outlets that the Omani government was trying to broker a meeting of the foreign ministers of Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia.