Al-Julani and Bashar al-Assad’s PM meet: A historic step towards reconciliation

Rebel leaders on Monday announced a general amnesty for Syrian soldiers who fought under the Assad regime, with the aim of calming the situation and perhaps even joining the forces of the new Syrian army.

Meanwhile, a senior source in Syria told Reuters about a surprising meeting between rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Julani and the Syrian prime minister, whose army was fighting these forces only two days ago.

According to the report, Assad's vice president, Faisal Mekdad, was also present at the meeting between the occupying power and the top echelons of the previous leadership headed by Assad.

Meanwhile, a number of European countries have announced that they are suspending asylum applications for Syrian citizens, who can now return to their homeland after the fall of the Assad regime.

France, Germany, Austria, and Greece are the European countries that took the step against the backdrop of the fall of the Assad regime, and other countries are expected to follow suit.

Against the backdrop of Israel's attacks on Syrian weapons facilities and the IDF's exploitation of the golden opportunity, international sources say that there is now an opportunity that will not return to eliminate the stockpile of chemical weapons held by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad until now.

Although the appeal was not addressed to Israel – not even by way of a hint – the senior diplomats said in the context of Western efforts to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons program that "to this day, this work has continued, and Syria's declaration of its chemical weapons program cannot yet be considered accurate and complete."