The Latest Breaking News from Abu Mohammed alGolani

Syrian factions appoint Islamist rebel leader as interim president post-Assad, facing challenges in forming unified army and integrating rebel groups.

The German and French foreign ministers are heading to Damascus to send what the German minister said is a clear signal that a “political new beginning” between Europe and Syria is possible

ON THE GROUND: Bel Trew visits Jobar – north of Damascus – which was devastated by some of the fiercest battles of the civil war. She meets residents returning home for the first time in more than a decade. Both they, and Syria itself, face major challenges in starting anew

The fall of President Bashar al-Assad has left a critical question: After a half-century of brutal dynastic rule has come to an end, who speaks for Syrians now?

A Cabinet minister had earlier suggested a decision on Hayat Tahrir al-Sham could be taken quickly.

Distracted by wars elsewhere, president Bashar al-Assad’s military allies Russia, Iran, and Lebanon’s Hezbollah failed to mobilise the kind of decisive firepower that had propped him up for years

The Home Secretary can decide to lift a ban on a proscribed organisation.

Assad, who has not spoken in public since the lightning rebel advance, has fled Damascus, reportedly to Moscow

SYRIANS in Glasgow gathered in the city centre to celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.