{"id":53515,"date":"2026-08-23T13:51:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T08:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=53515"},"modified":"2026-08-23T13:51:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T08:06:50","slug":"syria-foreign-minister-sees-israel-security-talks-resuming-despite-no-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/syria-foreign-minister-sees-israel-security-talks-resuming-despite-no-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria foreign minister sees Israel security talks resuming despite no trust"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reuters :\u00a0 Syria expects negotiations to resume soon with \u200bIsrael over a security deal it hopes will lead to Israel’s withdrawal from Syrian land, a top Syrian minister said, urging Israel to seize a “historic opportunity” \u200cas the door for diplomacy is open.<\/p>\n

In a Reuters interview in Damascus on Saturday, days after Israel bombed a Syrian airbase, Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani also stressed that Damascus’ priority is to halt Israeli attacks, saying confidence-building steps were needed in this direction.Washington has been seeking to forge a security deal between Israel and the government of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a new U.S. ally in the Middle East, for over a year. But it \u200bhas proven elusive as Israel has sent troops into Syrian territory and attacked government assets, citing threats to its security.<\/p>\n

Shaibani said negotiations over the security agreement had been frozen \u200bsince the start of the Iran war, but he expected them to restart. Contact between Syria and Israel was cut after the airbase strike, he \u2060said.<\/p>\n

“We believe there should be contact, especially with a party that constantly threatens the security of Syria. But if this contact doesn\u2019t bring results, then we don\u2019t need it,” Shaibani said. “We \u200bdo not trust Israel currently.”The Israeli prime minister’s office did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

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Sharaa has said Syria poses no threat to other countries, with Damascus focused on rebuilding from \u200b14 years of war.<\/p>\n

Israeli officials have talked about a range of potential dangers in Syria since Bashar al-Assad was toppled, with some describing the new rulers as barely disguised jihadists last year, even as Sharaa forged close U.S. ties.<\/p>\n

In the days after Assad fell in 2024, Israel seized territory in southwest Syria, citing the need to safeguard its citizens against attack, and bombed scores of Syrian military sites.<\/p>\n

“Israel has tried to maintain its security through brute \u200bforce and it hasn\u2019t succeeded” anywhere, Shaibani said. “I believe negotiations will resume soon.” No date has been set.
\n“The U.S. is trying continuously to put pressure on Israel to return to the dialogue table,” \u200bhe added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters :\u00a0 Syria expects negotiations to resume soon with \u200bIsrael over a security deal it hopes will lead to Israel’s withdrawal from Syrian land, a top Syrian minister said, urging Israel to seize a “historic opportunity” \u200cas the door for diplomacy is open. In a Reuters interview in Damascus on Saturday, days after Israel bombed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53518,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53515\/revisions\/53518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}