TEHRAN (Sputnik) – Syrian Defense Minister Fahd Jassem Freij arrived in Tehran to take part in a trilateral meeting on Syrian reconciliation with Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, a source in the Iranian Defense Ministry told Sputnik on Thursday.
The key issue on the agenda of the meeting is the regime of silence in Syria and trilateral cooperation in the fight against terrorist groups. The parties are also set to discuss political settlement in Syria and methods of suppressing the "hotbeds" of terrorism in the country.
The meeting was arranged at the initiative of the Iranian side.
Syria has been mired in civil war since 2011, with government forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad fighting numerous opposition factions and extremist groups.
