Syria’s leader brokered a ceasefire with US-backed Kurdish forces after capturing most of Syria’s Kurdish-held north-east region in a rapid offensive. Videos showed Syrian soldiers riding in captured US Humvees on Sunday and toppling statues as they advanced across the Euphrates river,

Syrian government forces rapidly retook Raqqa and key eastern territories from the US-backed SDF, prompting a ceasefire agreement that effectively restores Damascus’s control over much of Syria’s oil-rich northeast.

Syria’s military has announced it will open a “humanitarian corridor” for civilians to evacuate from an area in Aleppo province.