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US State Department: We want to extend the ceasefire in Manbij for as long as possible

A ceasefire between Turkey and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in Northern Syria has been extended to the end of this week, US State Department says

Iran called on the UN Security Council to stop Israel's airstrikes on Syria following the fall of Bashar al-Assad. "Israel has exploited the current situation to further destroy Syria's infrastructure," Iran's UN envoy Amir Saeid Iravani said on Tuesday

Lebanese Prime Minister: The information we received from the Syrian authorities regarding the issue of Lebanese forcibly disappeared in Syrian prisons is "not encouraging"

Explosions heard a short while ago on the #Armanaz #Kafr Takharim road west of #Idlib. News says a coalition drone targeted it with three Ninja missiles. One of the missiles hit high-tension wires, causing a power outage in the area.

Turkey army launches ground shelling on a village in Tal Tamr district

Turkish artillery shelling targets the northwestern countryside of Ain Issa city

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin and Defense Minister Israel Katz visited the peak of Mount Hermon earlier today, on the Syrian side of the border, after the site was captured by the Israeli army last week.

UN envoy to Syria: Israel has launched more than 350 raids on Syrian sites since Assad's fall

A convoy of tanks and personnel carriers belonging to the SDF leaves the town of Mansoura, west of Raqqa, for the city of Raqqa

International coalition warplanes fly south of Tabqa city in Raqqa countryside after carrying out several raids on ISIS sites in the Syrian Badia

SDF/YPJ snipers engaged SNA fighters trying to infiltrate into the Tishreen dam

Turkish drone targets SDF positions at the 17th Division headquarters in the vicinity of Raqqa

Local Syrian sources: Turkish aircraft target SDF sites north of Raqqa city, northeastern Syria, with an airstrike

Military patrols of the international coalition forces roam the village of Al-Hussainiya and the town of Muhaimidah in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor

.@SDF_Syria Commander @MazloumAbdi is pushing for a permanent ceasefire in NE_Syria through talks with the Global @coalition and Turkey

Turkey has bombed the village of Birxat in Girê Spî in Northern Syria 5 times with drones

UN: We expect about one million Syrian refugees to return between January and June of next year

EU: Our mission in Syria will reopen

Israeli troops have been operating in several Syrian villages beyond the buffer zone in southern Syria in the past day, according to local media .The Daraa 24 outlet yesterday reported that Israeli army soldiers entered the village of Ma'ariya, located a few hundred meters east of the buffer zone in the southern Golan Heights, and questioned locals. The outlet says that today, Israeli army tanks entered the town of Saidah, also located on the edge of the buffer zone. The Israeli army has said that its deployment to the buffer zone and strategic positions in the area is a defensive and temporary measure amid the situation in Syria, and it would remain there until it clears up

Israeli tanks penetrate the village of Saida al-Golan on the administrative border between the governorates of Daraa and Quneitra

The Israeli forces now control the Yarmouk River and the Al-Wahda Dam in southern Syria.

Iranian Leader: Israel is preparing itself through Syria to besiege and eliminate Hezbollah, but in the end it is the one that will be eliminated

EU foreign policy chief: We will continue to support Syrians at home and abroad

Wall Street Journal, citing a US official: A Turkish operation across the border with Syria "may be imminent"

Raqqa: Unknown warplanes fly over northern Raqqa countryside

Violent exchange of shelling between the SNA and the SDF west of Al-Jurn Al-Aswad in the northern countryside of Ain Issa

The Israeli's warplanes have returned over the capital, Damascus, with the continuation of violent air raids on the vicinity of the Sayyida Zeinab area.

Iraqi Interior Ministry denies Maher al-Assad's presence on its territory

Israeli warplanes fly over Homs, Latakia and the Syrian capital Damascus

SDF: The US mediation efforts to reach a permanent truce in the Manbij and Kobani regions have not succeeded due to the Turkish approach

The Turkish army removes the separation wall between Kobane and Turkiye

US airstrikes vs ISIS in Syria - targeted camps, operatives Monday. Initial assessment - 12 ISIS fighters killed, no civilian casualties, per @PentagonPresSec MajGen Par Ryder

Trump calls rebellion in Syria 'unfriendly takeover' by Turkey — AFP

Britain has sent a delegation of senior UK officials to Damascus for meetings with the new interim Syrian government and members of civil society, @DavidLammy says. It comes after he said the UK can have contact with HTS - even though it's still listed as a terror group

Syrian Democratic Forces: Turkish army is preparing to launch an offensive on Kobani and Ain Issa in northern Syria

The Israeli forces searched many male residents in the village of Maariyah in the Yarmouk Basin area in the western countryside of Daraa Governorate, while they were deployed in the streets of the village. The correspondent quoted one of the residents: Some of the searches were inappropriate

Assad in a statement attributed to him: I left the Hmeimim base in Latakia when the Russians requested its complete evacuation

Assad full English statement, shared on the (former) Syrian presidency’s Telegram channel

Head of Russia's Chechnya Kadyrov suggests removing Hayat Tahrir al-Sham from Russia's list of 'terrorist organisations'

A US convoy arrives in the town of Ain Issa north of Raqqa and heads toward the city of Kobani

German Foreign Ministry: Regional actors must take Syria's territorial integrity into account

German Foreign Ministry: Israel's settlement of people in areas it occupied in Syria is illegal

Reuters: Syrian Latakia port operating normally, ships unloading goods

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister: We warn Israel against annexing the Golan Heights, this is unacceptable

Israeli forces blow up weapons and ammunition depots on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Al-Baath

Convoys of Military Operations Administration forces arrive in Deir Ezzor city

Dutch foreign minister says closure of Russian bases in Syria will be among European conditions to support Damascus

Local sources in rural Tartous: Significant material damage reported in the villages of Bmalkeh, Al-Bakriyeh, Marseheen, Al-Joubeh, Badriyeh, Al-Wasitat, Beit Al-Khatib, and Hababeh in the countryside of Tartous province as a result of the Israeli airstrikes midnight on Monday