Syrian General Security arrested brigadier generals close to Maher al-Assad, brother of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and seized a drug shipment bound for Iraq, according to Al Jazeera.

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa said the events that took place on the Syrian coast two days ago pose a threat to his efforts to reunite the war-torn country, and vowed to punish those responsible even if they are "the people closest" to him.

Rami Makhlouf, the cousin of the ousted regime president Bashar al-Assad, held Ghiath Dala, one of the generals affiliated with the commander of the Fourth Division Maher al-Assad, responsible for the events that took place on the Syrian coast in recent days.

Syrian President for the transitional period, Ahmed al-Sharaa, said on Monday that Syria will remain a republican state with a parliamentary system and an executive government, announcing the formation of a preparatory committee for the national conference, with the preparation of a final statement for the conference that establishes a constitutional declaration, adding that reaching presidential elections may take four to five years.

The Director of the Syrian General Security Directorate in Latakia Governorate, western Syria, Major Mustafa Kneifati, confirmed today, Friday, the arrest of Brigadier General Atef Najib in the army of the deposed Bashar al-Assad regime, who played a role in igniting the Syrian revolution after he tried to suppress it in its cradle in Daraa Governorate.

Reuters quoted a Syrian source familiar with the talks that took place in Damascus between Syrian officials and a Russian delegation as saying that the commander-in-chief of the new administration in Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, requested that his country hand over the ousted president, Bashar al-Assad, and his close aides who are in Russia.