Syria’s Sharaa Says Good Progress Made on Potential Deal With Israel

by Dave DeCamp 

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda leader, told The Washington Post in an interview published Wednesday that good progress has been made on a potential deal with Israel, though he said any agreement hinges on Israel withdrawing from the territory it has captured since his forces ousted former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.

While it supported the regime change effort, Israel used the alleged threat of Sharaa’s group of jihadists, known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, to invade southwest Syria beyond the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and the buffer zone established under a 1974 disengagement deal.

“Syria got into war with Israel 50 years ago. Then, in 1974, there was a disengagement agreement,” Sharaa told the Post. “This agreement lasted for 50 years. But when the [Assad] regime fell, Israel revoked this agreement. They expanded their presence in Syria, expelled the UN [peacekeeping] mission and occupied new territory…

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