Syria updates: Classrooms reopened as Israel escalates attacks

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• Students return to classrooms in Syria after the country’s new rulers ordered schools to reopen.
• More than 7,600 Syrian refugees crossed the Turkish border to return home in the five days after the fall of ousted President Bashar al-Assad, Turkiye’s interior minister says.
• Israel’s air force carries out 61 missile attacks on military sites across Syria while ground troops destroy roads, power lines and water networks in southeastern Quneitra.
• Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa condemns Israel’s land grabs and ongoing attacks, but says the country is too “exhausted” for a new conflict.
• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration has “been in contact” with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which is led by al-Sharaa but is designated a “terrorist” organisation by Washington.