Now to Syria. The country's new leaders today vowed to create unity, but also hold to account the people who facilitated a half century of Assad rule.

Those calls for revenge added to the unease of many Syrian minorities, including U.S. partners in the fight against ISIS, who today had to give up hard-won territory.

Nick Schifrin begins our coverage.

In fractious Syria, today every faction is trying to seize as much power as possible.

Today, residents of DeraZur in the Northeast welcomed the rebel group that led Syria's takeover,

Hyatt, Territ al-Shahm,

or HTS.

Up until now, the city had been controlled by the U.S.-backed, mostly Kurdish, Syrian Democratic

forces.

Those Kurdish forces also lost control of Mambage in northern Syria, this time to the Turkish-backed

Syrian National Army.

The map of Syria continues to be redrawn.

The coalition that controls the capital and the West, HTS and the Syrian National Army

and Green are pushing against the Kurds in yellow.

In Manvij and Derizor, a U.S. official tells PBS NewsHour the U.S. negotiated with Kurdish troops to, quote,

hand over both cities. The U.S. priority continues to be ensuring the Kurds can help contain

pockets of ISIS in black. Meanwhile, in the South, Israel has seized territory that has been

demilitarized for 50 years. Syria's unease is felt among its minorities.

In the heartland of Shia al-Oyites, today Sunni rebels torch the grave of Hafez al-Assad,

the father of Bashar al-Assad, the two ruled Syria for more than half a century.

Their brutality today is still being uncovered. for more than half a century.

Their brutality today is still being uncovered.

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