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The Iranian foreign minister has confirmed that former members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards were among the Iranians captured by Syrian rebels near Damascus.
Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi denied they had any military role at present and reiterated that pilgrimage to Damascus shrines was the only purpose of their journey, the ISNA news agency reported.
"Some of those pilgrims used to be Revolutionary Guards members, some of them are retired servicemen," the minister said.
A total of 48 Iranian pilgrims who were traveling on a bus from the Damascus International Airport were abducted by armed insurgents on Sunday.
Their captors said the Iranians were apprehended while on a reconnaissance mission on behalf of the Syrian Army.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian "strongly" denied on Monday that the captured Iranians were members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
On Wednesday, Salehi requested the United Nations to assist in freeing the Iranians, saying that three of them had already been killed.
For almost 1.5 years Syria has been in a state of civil war as a popular movement has risen up against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as part of the Arab Spring revolutions.
A massive explosion occurred on Saturday at Shahid Rajaee port near Bandar Abbas, in southern Iran’s Hormozgan province, killing at least 40 people
China, Russia, and Iran have called for an end to all “illegal and unilateral sanctions” against Tehran, urging the abandonment of “threats of force”
The United States has strongly condemned recent killings in western Syria, with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressing outrage at the murders
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have carried out strikes on military targets and weapon storage sites in southern Syria, according to an announcement made early Wednesday
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced the establishment of the "Grain from Ukraine" fund, aiming to support efforts to stabilize Syria by providing security and economic opportunities
The Russian cargo ship Ursa Major sank off the Spanish coast on December 23, following an explosion onboard
Ukraine, backed by its European allies, is pressing Russia to agree to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire set to commence on May 12
Following U.S. mediation, India and Pakistan announced a ceasefire on Saturday after days of intense conflic
The European Commission has refrained from commenting on President Rumen Radev's call for a referendum on Bulgaria's entry into the eurozone
Russia is set to close its airspace over the Kapustin Yar military training and rocket launch complex from May 12 to 13
Thousands of Slovak citizens took to the streets in Bratislava and other cities on the night of May 9 to protest Prime Minister Robert Fico’s attendance at the Moscow parade
On the morning of 10 May, French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Kyiv for a key meeting of the "coalition of the willing"
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