{"id":594446,"date":"2026-08-24T12:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/594446\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T12:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:14:12","slug":"syria-israel-hold-us-mediated-talks-to-ease-tensions-syria-news-agency-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/594446\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria, Israel hold US-mediated talks to ease tensions, Syria news agency says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Smoke rises following an Israeli attack in Syria. (Illustrative photo: VNA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2408_am_11.jpg\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Smoke rises following an Israeli attack in Syria. (Illustrative photo: VNA)<\/p>\n<p>The talks focused on practical mechanisms to halt Israeli strikes, arrests and targeted operations, \u200band on reviving negotiations towards a security agreement that could lay the groundwork for a \u2060broader future accord, SANA said.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides also discussed efforts to ease tensions between Israel and Turkey and to prevent their rivalry from spilling onto Syrian territory.<\/p>\n<p>Syria&#8217;s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani told Reuters on Saturday that Damascus expected security negotiations with \u200bIsrael to resume soon.<\/p>\n<p>Talks had been suspended since the start of the Iran conflict, while Syria cut off contact entirely after Israeli strikes on Syria\u2019s Abu al-Duhur airbase last week, according to Shaibani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smoke rises following an Israeli attack in Syria. (Illustrative photo: VNA) The talks focused on practical mechanisms to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[268921,41397,85,46,43,4713,43630,268920,268918,268919],"class_list":["post-594446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-ease-tensions","tag-hold","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-syria","tag-talks","tag-us-mediated","tag-vov","tag-vovworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594446","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=594446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}