Mohammad Sio<\/p>\n
17 April 2026\u2022Update: 17 April 2026<\/p>\n
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa said Friday that Damascus is seeking a new security agreement with Israel that would ensure withdrawal to the 1974 disengagement lines as part of a phased approach to possible broader negotiations.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a panel during the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in T\u00fcrkiye, Sharaa said the 1974 agreement had held for more than five decades but was later undermined by Israeli violations, particularly after the fall of the former Syrian regime in December 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are now entering the first level (of talks), which is seeking a security agreement that guarantees Israel\u2019s withdrawal to the 1974 borders and sets new rules by either commitment to the agreement or adjusting it in a way that guarantees the security of both sides,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He added that, if successful, the process could lead to long-term negotiations aimed at resolving the status of the occupied Golan Heights.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter that, if this succeeds, we may engage in long-term negotiations to resolve the issue of the occupied Golan,\u201d Sharaa added.<\/p>\n
The Syrian president also rejected any recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the territory. \u201cAny recognition of Israel\u2019s claim to the occupied Syrian Golan is invalid. This is a right belonging to the Syrian people, not to any government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
After the fall of the Assad regime on Dec. 8, 2024, Israel declared the collapse of the 1974 Disengagement Agreement and moved to occupy the buffer zone along the frontier.<\/p>\n
Despite the new Syrian administration not issuing threats toward Israel, Israeli forces have carried out airstrikes in Syria since Assad\u2019s ouster, killing civilians and targeting military sites, equipment, and ammunition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohammad Sio 17 April 2026\u2022Update: 17 April 2026 Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa said Friday that Damascus is seeking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":{"0":"post-396885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sitekeywords"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}