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Syrian security forces battled for a second day yesterday to crush a nascent insurgency by fighters from Bashar al-Assad&s Alawite sect, with scores reported killed as the Islamist-led government faced the biggest challenge yet to its authority.

An Israeli drone strike killed two people in Gaza yesterday, local Palestinian medical authorities said, underscoring the uncertainty surrounding a fragile ceasefire deal that has halted fighting in the enclave for weeks.

The Trump administration's cuts to USAID have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments to aid groups, leaving them paying out of pocket to preserve a fragile ceasefire, according to officials from the US humanitarian agency.