The long-awaited conference was billed as a "rare historical opportunity" to rebuild the country after 14 years of civil war.

Syria's interim president has told a national dialogue conference that the country has a "historic" opportunity to rebuild after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. Ahmed al-Sharaa also stressed the need for armed groups to integrate into the military and for the state to have a monopoly on weapons,

A long-waited Syrian National Dialogue Conference took place Monday at the People's Palace in Damascus, with approximately 550 attendees, as reported by Syrian media. Syrian Kurdish political parties criticized their exclusion from the event,