DAMASCUS (Dispatches) -- Iran’s military chief of staff visited a frontline position near the Syrian city of Aleppo during a visit in which he said the Daesh terrorist group is on its last legs.
General Muhammad Baqeri visited the position with a number of Iranian officers. He also met Assad on Thursday during a visit to set out a joint military strategy, Syrian state media reported.
Baqeri has warned the occupying regime of Israel against breaching Syrian airspace and territory and pledged to increase cooperation with Syria’s military to fight both the Zionist regime and Takfiri militants.
"The life of terrorist groups is coming to an end,” said Baqeri during a meeting with military advisors and armed forces involved in battles against terrorists in Syria.
The senior military official further described "unity” and "exemplary coordination” among the Syrian army and its allied forces as the key factors behind the "successive” gains they have made against the terrorists.
Baqeri further expressed hope that the Syrian forces and allied fighters will continue to hold the upper hand in the fight against the Takfiri militants.
Iran has a military advisory mission in Syria aimed at strengthening its army on the battle against terrorism. Moscow has also been providing air cover to Syria’s ground offensives. Syrian forces are also receiving assistance from fighters of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement.
Backed by their allies, Syrian government forces have managed to deal heavy blows to terrorist groups, which have been wreaking havoc on the Arab nation since early 2011.
On Thursday, Reuters said Saudi Arabia’s Persian Gulf Affairs Minister Thamer al-Sabhan and U.S. special envoy to the Syria war coalition Brett McGurk had visited Raqqah to discuss the city’s "reconstruction.”

Amed Sido, a senior adviser to the SDF, said the Saudi official had met "a reconstruction committee” set up by the "Raqqah civil council" which has been formed to run the city.
"We consider it a first visit, a first step, that could be the beginning of future relations,” Sido said.
The London-based Arab news and opinion website Rai al-Youm, however, described the visit "dangerous" in line with the US policy to divide the region.
"It is unclear what Sabhan and his government as well as the Americans are doing in Raqqah. In any case, what they are doing is dangerous that can draw either a direct or an indirect response from Turkey and Iran, and certainly Syria," it wrote Friday.
"So, will the leadership of Saudi Arabia be able to deal with this response in any form, especially at a time when the country's leaders are stuck in the quagmire of the Yemeni war and their allies have been defeated in Syria?" it asked.