DAMASCUS, (ST)_Under the auspices of President Bashar al-Assad, the International Media Conference on counter-terrorism is to be held in Dar al-Assad for Culture and Arts [The Damascus Opera House] in Damascus on July 24-25.
More than 130 media figures from Syria, Russia, China, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Algeria, Morocco, Bahrain, Jordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Cyprus, Britain, Germany, and Kuwait will take part in the two-day event, Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi declared.
He added that the conference, which is organized by Information Ministry, will release a document that will be a reference for future work in fighting the Takfiri terrorism.
“The conference is being held five years after the terror war on Syria and it will be very important due to the international and regional shifts,” the minister said.
The participants will focus of the need for forming regional and international alliance to confront terrorism, the role of media in current wars and the importance of media in military and field works.
Basma Qaddour