German Foreign Minister Baerbock:

Kurdish groups must be disarmed and integrated into the national army in Syria, Turkish security must not be threatened from northern Syria.

US State Department announced the cancellation of $10 million reward for information on Syrian leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa.

United States is considering lifting sanctions on Syria; if the new government is responsive and shows progress, State Department announced.

US State Department:

Iran will have no role in the future of Syria.

US State Department:

Türkiye has great influence in Syria and has interests related to its national security.

United States will provide technical support to the new Syrian government to document and uncover the crimes of the Assad regime.

US State Department:

Discussions with Ahmed Al-Sharaa were good and very fruitful.

American diplomats believe that Al-Sharaa is pragmatic and holds moderate views on women's rights and equality.

NEW: Nariman Dzhelyal Enverovych, first deputy chairman of the Crimean Tatar Parliament, has been appointed as Ukraine's ambassador to Türkiye.

Enverovych was sentenced to 17 years in prison and a fine of 700,000 roubles by the Russian-controlled so-called Supreme Court of Crimea on 21 September 2022.

There were no requests from Berlin for Scholz to travel to Russia, Kremlin announced.

The mobilization age in Ukraine will be reduced to 18-20 years no later than March 2025, Advisor to the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development Nazariy Volyansky claimed.

Volyansky thinks that Western countries will force Ukraine to reduce mobilization age by blackmailing Ukraine.

Footage of a column of Russian Forces leaving the T4 airbase in Homs province towards one of their bases on the Syrian coast.

Along the route; there are infantry fighting vehicles, tanks and guns abandoned by the Assad regime army.

#BREAKING A car drove through a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing 11 people and injuring 60 others.

One of the ringleaders of the YPG/PKK terror group, Ilham Ahmed:

I hope Trump doesn’t withdraw U.S. troops from Syria.

We cannot sustain this war in the long term without international support.

Footage of a Russian missile landing near a Church in Kyiv, from today's attacks.

The driver has been arrested by the authorities.

Netanyahu will not agree to end the war before Hamas is removed from power in Gaza.

“I’m not going to agree to end the war before we remove Hamas. We’re not going to leave them in power in Gaza, 30 miles from Tel Aviv. It’s not going to happen.”

Source: WSJ

The villages of Nubl and Zahraa in the Aleppo countryside, predominantly Shia-majority areas, are celebrating the Syrian revolution.

Reportedly the footage of the arrest.

Local sources claim that 60 to 80 people were injured in the attack.

The perpetrator is reportedly a man from Saudi Arabia born in 1974.

Source: WELT