Syria, Iraq "will respond to Israeli attacks"![]() August 27, 2019 - 16:19 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council (EC) Mohsen Rezaei said on Sunday, August 25 that both Iraq and Syria would respond to the latest Israeli attacks on their soil, Al-Masdar News reports. “Measures that Israel and America are jointly implementing in Syria and Iraq are against the international rules. And Syrian and Iraqi defenders will soon respond to them,” Rezaie told ILNA on Sunday on the sideline of an event in Qazvin province. Rezaei made these comments just hours after the Israeli military attacked the Damascus countryside on Saturday evening. The Israeli Armed Forces said they damaged an Iranian base during the attack on the Damascus countryside. Rezaei strongly rejected these claims by the Israeli Armed Forces, saying, “Israel and America do not have the power to attack different Iranian centers. Meanwhile, none of our advisory centers have been damaged.” At least five members of Hezbollah were killed during the Israeli attack on the Aqraba area in rural Damascus, a source from the Syrian Army told Al-Masdar News. ![]() ![]() Azerbaijani authorities report that they have already resettled 3,000 people in the Nagorno-Karabakh town of Stepanakert. On June 10, Azerbaijani President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will leave for Turkey on a working visit. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow on April 22 to hold talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. ![]() ![]() Partner news | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |