Incident comes a day after violence between US-backed Kurdish fighters and Turkish troops left several Kurds dead

Meeting marks highest-level contact between Ankara and Damascus in more than a decade, shortly after Arab League voted to reinstate Syria and as Erdogan faces upcoming election

In government-held territory, residents hope rapprochement will bring trade and investment, while in opposition-held areas locals feel increasingly isolated and abandoned

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, who is close to Itamar Ben Gvir and the father of a far-right minister, says disaster 'cleanses the world, makes it better'; some rabbis aghast at comments

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Tehran ready to help boost ties between Ankara and Damascus, whose relations broke down over Syrian civil war

Turkey says child and teacher among dead after high school, house and border gate struck; rights group says Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces responsible for attack

Refugees film themselves eating bananas after man launches tirade against Syrian women claiming they were 'eating bananas by the kilogram' while Turks suffer economic hardship

Attack on Hamza Division comes amid increasing tensions between Assad's forces and insurgent groups who still have a stronghold in parts of the country

Walid al-Moallem blasts US sanctions as an 'inhumane attempt to suffocate Syrians, just like George Floyd and others were cruelly suffocated in the United States'

Fighting and displacement still at its height, 9 years after demonstrators demanded the ouster of President Assad and precipitated 21st century's biggest war so far