A convoy of US military tankers, in cooperation with allied SDF militants, has smuggled crude oil from fields in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah to bases in neighboring Iraq.

President Assad says a Moscow-brokered rapprochement with Turkey should aim for “the end of occupation” by Ankara.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that a meeting with Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad is a possibility, suggesting that the two sides are close to mending fences after 11 years.

Turkish military forces and their allied militants have shelled two villages in the countryside of Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah, causing material damage.

Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham Takfiri terrorists have taken control of the predominantly Kurdish city of Afrin in Syria’s Aleppo province.

A rocket attack targets a military facility which houses American occupation forces in northeastern Syria.

Turkish fighter jets heavily bombard villages in Iraq's semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan, with no immediate reports about the exact number of casualties.