Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al Sharaa in Damascus. The meeting follows a directive from Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to discuss Syria's new structure after Assad's toppling.

Sham, pledged to American diplomats that he would not allow terrorist groups there to threaten the West Senior U.S. diplomats on Friday held their first formal talks in Damascus with the leader of the Islamist rebels who overthrew the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,