Armed conflicts in Syria

Syria and Jordan agreed in a phone call between Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and Ayman Safadi of Jordan to form a joint security committee to investigate Jordan's recent airstrikes inside Syria, North Press reported. Safadi expressed regret over civilian casualties and said the strikes were based on field intelligence.

Syria closed its Nasib border crossing with Jordan, suspending passenger and commercial traffic in both directions, its General Authority for Ports and Customs said. Syria's Foreign Ministry said it had conveyed its objections to Jordan over airstrikes carried out without prior coordination, Anadolu reported.

Unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle killed Hussein Ahmeid al-Shaher, a member of the Facilities Protection Guard under the Internal Security Forces, in the village of al-Dahla in eastern Deir ez-Zor countryside, local sources told North Press.

Displaced Kurdish families who returned to Tel Abyad with property deeds were met with violence and vandalism on Monday. A survivor told Rudaw that around 70 to 80 vehicles were damaged and more than 200 people were trapped in a building for nearly nine hours. The United States condemned the attack, North Press reported.

Jordan said its air force struck what it described as militant hideouts in southern Syria after linking suspects in last week's church attack in Karak to 'terrorist groups' there. Syrian Civil Defence said seven people, including three children and a woman, were killed at four sites in Daraa and Sweida provinces, Reuters reported.

A government source told North Press that a drone targeted commander Abu Abdulrahman al-Libi in the town of Qara on the Damascus-Homs highway. SANA reported several casualties from an explosion inside a vehicle there. The circumstances had not been independently verified.

SANA, the Syrian state news agency, reported that what it called 'outlaw groups' in Sweida city had completely closed the Sweida-Damascus highway in both directions at the Um al-Zaytoun checkpoint, which they control, citing Qutaiba Azzam of the Sweida Media Department.

Two members of Syria's Internal Security Forces were killed and five injured during an operation against an Islamic State cell in Rankous, in western Damascus countryside, according to a security forces statement carried by North Press.

Syria's Foreign Ministry condemned the killing of a young man with disabilities by Israeli forces during an incursion into Jamla village in western Daraa governorate, holding Israeli forces fully responsible, North Press reported. The man was shot dead, according to Syrian media reports.

Armed groups launched explosive-laden drones at internal security posts in Syria's southern Suwayda province late on Tuesday, Syrian media reported. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, and the Syrian Interior Ministry had yet to comment.

US special envoy for Syria and Iraq Tom Barrack called on Israel to halt its military operations in Syria, saying President Ahmad al-Sharaa was ready for an understanding with Israel, including a non-aggression agreement that could pave the way to normalizing relations, North Press reported.

Syrian authorities announced the capture of Ali Kayali, known as Mihrac Ural, whom they accuse of involvement in the 2013 massacres in al-Bayda and Baniyas. Lebanese officials said he was seized from his home in Mansouriyeh and taken to Syria without their knowledge; a Syrian security source told AFP it was coordinated with Lebanon.

An Israeli force of eight military vehicles entered the Mazraat al-Hanoot area of southern Quneitra, expelled shepherds and fired live ammunition at a civilian water tanker before withdrawing, SANA reported. Earlier that day an Israeli patrol raided a home in Wadi al-Ruqqad in western Daraa and detained several young men for nearly an hour.

Four Road Security personnel were killed when unidentified assailants attacked two patrols on the Salamiya-Athriya road in the Hama countryside, Interior Ministry spokesperson Nour al-Din al-Baba said, according to Syrian state media.

The UN human rights office said Israel had carried out 280 armed incursions into southern Syria in September, the highest monthly figure recorded this year, and was holding 49 Syrians in detention, with released detainees alleging torture, beatings and threats against their families.

Syria's Internal Security Forces said that, with the General Intelligence Service, they had dismantled an ISIS-linked cell in the Houla area of Homs countryside, arresting two members, seizing two improvised explosive devices and foiling planned attacks on places of worship and security patrols, Syrian state media reported.

The UN Security Council unanimously reaffirmed the need to fully respect the 1974 Disengagement Agreement and uphold Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity, in a statement delivered by Greece, which holds the council presidency, after consultations on the UN Disengagement Observer Force, Syrian state media reported.

Israeli forces entered the town of Jubata al-Khashab in northern Quneitra countryside, shot a man with a disability in the foot and detained him before withdrawing, Syrian state media reported.

Syria's interior ministry said on 6 October that security forces had arrested Khaled Raed Birouni in Hajira town, Damascus Countryside, describing him as the Islamic State's military commander in Homs and blaming him for the December 2025 bombing of a Homs mosque that killed eight people.

Israeli forces in several military vehicles entered the Beit Jinn area of western Damascus Countryside and blew up a military post formerly used by forces of the Assad government, Syrian state media reported.

Israeli forces killed a man shortly after midnight in the part of southern Syria they occupy; the Israeli military said he had tried to infiltrate one of its posts but did not identify him or say whether he was armed.

Israeli forces began clearing land near al-Asha in southern Quneitra to extend the 'Sufa 53 Line', an earth berm and trench inside the buffer zone, Syrian state media reported; Syria's foreign ministry called it a blatant breach of the 1974 disengagement agreement.

A car exploded near an Internal Security Forces checkpoint in Jazrat al-Buhamid, in Deir Ezzour countryside, injuring two people; a security source told Syrian state media that preliminary information pointed to an explosive device attached to the vehicle.

Syria's information ministry and Turkey denied a Reuters report that Syrian officials had met Hezbollah representatives secretly in Turkey in September.

Gunmen killed at least seven people on a bus carrying workers near the Masyaf bridge in western Syria, state media said; no group claimed the attack.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu visited an Israeli military position on Mount Hermon inside Syrian territory; Damascus condemned the visit and called for a return to the 1974 disengagement agreement.

SDF commander Mazloum Abdi announced in Damascus that the SDF had completed its merger with the Syrian military and would no longer operate as an independent force.

The United States removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, a designation in place since 1979.

Israel carried out eight air strikes on the Abu al-Duhur airbase in Idlib province; Netanyahu's office said the aim was to stop Turkish troops deploying there, and US envoy Tom Barrack called it an unnecessary escalation.

The government announced a ceasefire with the Syrian Democratic Forces after pushing into SDF-held areas; under the agreement the SDF was to be dismantled and its forces were to join the state's military and security forces.