Ukraine's foreign minister has met with Syria's de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa in Damascus, days after Kyiv announced the delivery of a large shipment of wheat flour to the country following the ouster of Bashar Assad,

The son of Egyptian cleric Yusuf Qaradawi is due to appear before a prosecutor on Tuesday and is at risk of extradition, says lawyer

Turkey is ready to supply electricity to Syria and Lebanon and a team of government officials is already in Syria working on how to resolve its energy issues, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said.

Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster has ended Iran's 40-year dominance and quest for hegemony in the region, further weakened his allies in Lebanon and created a new opportunity for establishing normal relations.

Currently, Turkey supplies power to some parts of northern Syria. Now Turkey has vowed to help the war-torn country after the 13-year-long civil war. Turkey is also ready to supply electricity to Lebanon, according to the Turkish energy minister.

Lebanon said on Thursday it was looking forward to having the best neighbourly relations with Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad opened the way to a new era in the often turbulent relations between the two neighbours.

The Israeli military said on Friday it hit a border crossing between Lebanon and Syria that was being used by Iranian-backed militants. The air force "struck infrastructure that was used to smuggle weapons via Syria to the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon at the Janta Crossing on the Syrian-Lebanese border,

Qaradawi, an Egyptian opposition activist wanted by Cairo and son of the late spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, a Lebanese judicial official told AFP on Sunday.

Beirut: Syria's embassy in Lebanon suspended consular services on Saturday, a day after two relatives of deposed Syrian President Bashar Assad were arrested at the Beirut airport with allegedly forged passports.

Many senior Syrian officials and people close to the former ruling family fled the country to neighbouring Lebanon after Assad's regime was toppled.

Syria's Embassy in Lebanon suspended consular services after two of Bashar Assad's relatives were apprehended with forged passports. Lebanon handed over dozens of Syrians, including ex-army officers,