Syria authorities say armed groups have agreed to disband

Absent from the meeting were representatives of the US-backed, Kurdish-led forces that control swathes of Syria's northeast. The meeting between the rebel groups and Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa "ended in an agreement on the dissolution of all the groups and their integration under the supervision of the ministry of defence", said a statement carried by the SANA news agency and the authorities' Telegram account. The announcement comes just over two weeks after president Bashar al-Assad fled Syria...