Ahmed al-Sharaa

Syrian Democratic Forces flag

Two days after meeting with Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan, the Syrian government announced it was pulling out of a planned meeting with the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, Sarah Glynn reports.

A week of brutal sectarian violence in Suwayda, in southern Syria, has left more than 1000 people dead, during which disparate Druze factions united against the Syrian government and Israel further consolidated its grip on the region. Sarah Glynn reports.

Abdullah Ocalan delivering his message from Imrali Prison

Twenty to thirty Kurdistan Workers’ Party guerillas will come down from the mountains and destroy their weapons in front of witnesses from around the world, in a symbolic act of the PKK’s commitment to its disarmament and dissolution, reports Sarah Glynn.