Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service. Coming to you live from London, I'm Julian Marshall.

Syria's new ruler Ahmed al-Shara, previously known by his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammed al-Jalani, is starting to assert his authority.

He said today, all weapons in the country

had to come under state control. He said something similar in the past, but what's different

this time are his added details and in whose company he made his comments. He was holding a joint

news conference in Damascus with Hakkan Fidane,

foreign minister of Turkey, which back the rebels who overthrow Bashar al-Assad.

Turkey regards Syrian Kurd as allied to the Turkish-Kurdish movement, the PKK,

which Turkey and others deem a terrorist group. And at the news conference, Mr.

Ulshara said Syrian Kurdish fighters of the SDF would be included in the disarmament exercise.

We will not by any means allow for arms outside the control of the state, whether from

revolutionary factions or factions in

SDF areas. We need to close this chapter as quickly as possible because the presence of rogue arms

in the country is what leads to chaos and unstable security. So this is one of the priorities.

And for more on what came out of the news conference,

I've been speaking to the BBC Sebastian Asher in Beirut.

I think it's now accident that Hakan Fidane is the first foreign minister

to go to Damascus since the fall of President Assad.

I think that is evidence, again, of the role that Turkey played

in the removal of Assad. So there is a debt, perhaps, that Apan al-Shara needs to pay,

and this may be the first installment. The words that the new Syrian leader was saying on the surface

are very much about unity and ending the violence in Syria, but in the context of having the

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