Despite the significant security challenges facing Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, the new Syrian government has managed to rapidly graduate new batches of security and police recruits, achieving this with impressive speed.

The security campaign launched by the new Syrian administration to capture the remnants of al-Assad's regime is running more “systematically” than before, allowing it to achieve what has been described as “positive” results.

Senior US officials say Turkiye is preparing for a large-scale incursion into north-east Syria controlled by US-backed Kurdish forces.

After being surprised by the rapid fall of the Syrian regime, European governments find themselves in a state of anticipation regarding the position that should be adopted towards the armed opposition factions that seized power, with a mixture of concern and optimism.