The Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham suffers major setbacks at the hands of former allies on the outskirts of the capital, Saudi-owned Asharq Al-Awsat reports
Hazem al-Amin explains the controversy around a meeting between the regime and a delegation from Tunisia’s Nobel Peace Prize-wining union
Syrian government will ‘not allow’ the Kurdish administration to divide the county by holding independent elections, Deputy FM tells foreign press
HNC head backs calls for removal of Syrian president after news surfaced that key supporter Saudi Arabia told negotiators to accept Assad’s staying in power
Russian forces have erected two checkpoints and a number of observation posts to monitor the cease-fire in the area, opposition site Zaman al-Wasl reports
Gen. Sulaiman al-Salama is the second high-ranking military officer to be arrested on corruption allegations in the past month, Zaman al-Wasl reports
Parents in northern Syria are trying and failing to save their children from conscription in areas under the control of U.S.-backed forces, Tamaddon writes
Saudi FM purportedly told Syrian opposition that group must reinvent its ‘vision’ or risk becoming obsolete, Alsulta Alrabiha writes
SANA reports on swearing in ceremony for Iranian leader’s second presidential term in the capital Tehran
The Turkish language requirement is one of the main problems faced by the Syrian job seeker in Turkey, Iqtissad writes
Opposition leader Riad Seif will surrender his role as chief of the Istanbul-based political bloc, sources reveal to Zaman al-Wasl
The removal of security barriers might have resulted in a return to normalcy in Hama. But for others the checkpoints provided a source of income and a means to avoid the fighting fronts, Sada al-Sham writes
Zaman al-Wasl profiles Razan Khaebbiya, activist and founder of the Human Hope project which aims to assist children who have lost limbs in conflict
France’s dynamic new president has demonstrated the willingness to show fresh leadership on the global stage, Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat newspaper writes
Damascus urges international community to respond to the coalition massacre of more than 60 people this week, state media reports
Al-Araby’s political analyst Salama Kila paints ISIS as an imperialist tool used as by the powerful as a pretext for invasion and conquest
Writing for Qatari-owned Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, Adnan Abdel Razzaq draws a comparison between the displacement of rebels to Idleb and the US testing of the MOAB bomb in Afghanistan
Prominent cyber-activist and free speech advocate was executed after his transfer to Adra prison near the capital, according to widow
Iran’s parliament speaker Hossein Abdollahian meets with Syria’s top diplomat ahead of his visit to Lebanon
Images spread on social media with users purporting the pictured men were Syrians caught while attempting to enter Turkish territory
