Jordan stands ready to help Syria rebuild, its foreign minister said after meeting Syria's new de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on Monday, the highest-level contact by an Arab state with Syria's new Islamist-led administration.

The Assad regime’s abrupt collapse has thrust America’s long-standing military mission in Syria into uncertainty, as the Pentagon’s chief battlefield partner fights for survival and a U.S. leader skeptical of foreign military commitments prepares to retake power.

Experts say the various ways of punishing Assad include the ICC following the Bangladesh-Myanmar model or cases in national courts under universal jurisdiction - Anadolu Ajansı

Ministers from Jordan and Qatar were among the first high-ranking Arab diplomats to meet with the leader of the rebel coalition that toppled the Syrian regime two weeks ago.

Qatari and Jordanian officials pledged to support Syria's new government after officials from both countries held meetings in Damascus

Germany warned Turkey of stepping up military action against Kurdish armed groups in the north of Syria. Mourners carry the coffin of a member of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ), who was killed during a Turkish drone strike in the countryside of Kobani, during her funeral in Syria's northeastern city of Qamishli. AFP

Turkey’s foreign minister traveled to Damascus Sunday to meet with Syria’s new de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the Islamist group HTS that toppled the Assad regime. According to press accounts,

Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa hosted Monday several high-level dignitaries from neighboring countries, Jordan's top diplomat Ayman

Analysis: Post-Assad Syria, Iran-Israel hostilities, Palestine, and an unpredictable Trump administration will be key factors in reshaping the region in 2025.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said a Turkey-Kurdish conflict "must not happen" and that only the so-called "Islamic State" stood to gain.

Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip overnight killed at least 20 people, Palestinian medics said Monday. One of the strikes killed eight people including two kids in a tent camp in the Muwasi