Israel and Syria reportedly resume diplomatic talks with U.S. backing under Trump's Middle East peace vision, focusing on border security and regional stability.

Despite its defeat in Syria in 2019, IS' sleeper cells still carry out deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq, where the extremists once declared their caliphate.

“If Syria fails to integrate all armed forces and former opposition groups into its army, it faces an existential challenge of fragmentation and disintegration,” Caroline Rose, director of military and national security priorities at the New Lines Institute, told Al Jazeera.

Turkish foreign minister accuses the YPG terror group of fuelling division as clashes intensify, civilian deaths mount, and Damascus presses ahead with post-Assad security drive.

Images shared by Syria's state-run news agency showed blood on carpets, holes in the walls, shattered windows and fire damage.

The talks, in Paris, are the latest bid to reduce tensions between two longtime enemies. A deal would help both curry favor with the Trump administration.

Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has held a phone call with Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa to discuss developments in Syria and ways to strengthen stability, the Syrian Presidency has said.

Clashes broke out on Syria’s coast between protesters from the Alawite religious minority and counterdemonstrators on Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring dozens of others, health officials said.

Syria has begun circulating new currency bills, a year after Bashar Assad's government fell. Central Bank Governor Mokhles Nazer said Saturday that the exchange of old Syrian pounds with new banknotes has officially started.

Dozens of civilians were forced to temporarily leave their homes amid shelling and gunfire, amid partial outages of electricity and water, and disruptions to some basic services.