Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Iran on Tuesday to discuss Syrian developments with his Iranian counterpart, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday.

Iran and Turkey have summoned each other’s diplomats for discussions after Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan criticized Tehran’s policy of supporting militias in Syria and elsewhere in the region.

Israeli ground forces have carried out their deepest incursion into Syrian territory to date, advancing into areas in the southwestern provinces of Quneitra and Dara’a, local reports said on Tuesday.

Israelis are hoping that Iran hawks in the Trump administration might moderate any tendency to go easy on Tehran.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman has reacted to the Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan's statements against Iran's regional policies.

Assad government in December, Israel expanded its occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights by seizing the demilitarized buffer zone, a move that violated the 1974 disengagement agreement with Syria. It also intensified airstrikes targeting Syrian military positions across the country.