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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

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

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

Iranian Foreign Ministry: We prefer not to use the term imminent regarding opening our embassy in Syria because this requires preparations

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